The Global Vegetation-Plot Database a Platform of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). Curated by Gabriella Damasceno. Views my own.
Halle (Saale), Germany
Joined April 2018
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In the 1970s, a pioneer team of Argentinian, Chilean and UK biogeographers studied the vegetation of Patagonia along a 450 km transect. Now the data are available #OA and published in @JVSAVS, thanks to a collaboration with @sPlot_iDiv @CONICETDialoga
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Beautiful use of the @sPlot_iDiv vegetation database ⬇️
Vulnerability to embolism #P50 & root length in woody plants are independent or othogonal traits selected by aridity, seasonality & water table depth
🚨 Just published @NewPhyt 🤩
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Nice to see Thore Engel’s paper published! It used the @sPlot_iDiv global vegetation plot data base and started during Thore’s MSc at the Graduate Program in Ecology, UFRGS, Porto Alegre. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Plant functional traits should be tightly linked to climate, but this was elusive to prove at the global scale.
@KambachStephan shows why: The relationship is habitat specific
🔥Hot off the press🔥nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @sPlot_iDiv
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I am excited to share our new @NatureEcoEvo paper that uses @inaturalist citizen science observations to map plant functional traits on a global scale!
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#iNatTraitMaps #CitizenScience #firstpaper @Rsc4Earth @UniLeipzig @NFDI4BioDiv @idiv
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‼️JOB ALERT‼️
Research Officer (m/f/d) for the project "MultiTroph Data management" (Z2), @GeobotanyHalle, @UniHalle | Halle (Saale), Germany | Closing date: 15 October 2022
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A new study incl. authors from @IBOTCZ shows that the Eastern European forest-steppe region is home to a similar number of plant species as the Amazon rainforest, which only becomes apparent when species are counted in smaller sampling areas.
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On February 9, 1990, Carl Sagan gave this speech before the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU, expounding on climate observations and energy strategies for a sustainable future, emphasizing solar
[full speech: buff.ly/3RZhLOY]
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Here is a comment about our @sPlot_iDiv paper with Francesco Sabatini: Species richness of plant communities: the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer? ecoevocommunity.nature.com/p… #behindthepaper
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Research published in @NatureComms presents global maps of local species richness for vascular plants in order to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity. go.nature.com/3ARGWeG
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In a post "linking to elsewhere", Francesco Maria Sabatini and colleagues describe a story behind their recent paper in Nature Communications: Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity vegsciblog.org/2022/09/03/th…
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Multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity nature.com/articles/s41467-0… .@sPlot_iDiv
.@UniboBiome
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Hot off the press @NatureComms ⬇️ The first (near-global) map of local (alpha) plant species richness, meaning at the spatial scale at which species co-occur! I am so proud to be part of the great @sPlot_iDiv team led by Francesco Maria Sabatini 👏 Teaser: unexpected hotspots 😉
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How does #plant #species #richness scale with plot size across #ecosystems and regions? For instance, how many species are there in 10, 100, 1000, 10000 m2? Curious? Check our recent paper led by F. Sabatini from @sPlot_iDiv published today @NatureComms
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Können die Steppen Osteuropas ähnlich artenreich sein wie Gebiete im Amazonas? Laut einer Studie von #MLU und @iDiv ist das möglich, wenn die Arten nicht nur auf großen Flächen gezählt werden. Das Team untersuchte dafür knapp 170.000 Vegetationsaufnahmen. bit.ly/MLUPflanzenvielfalt
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Global maps of vascular plant species richness in small areas just published
The latest #sPlot paper has just gone live in @NatureComms
Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity
What is it about? A 🧵
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The first multi-scale global map of plant species richness, just published by our FM Sabatini and @sPlot_idiv in @NatureComms.
How many species can be found when sampling 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 m2?
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
#biodversity #plants
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Beyond Trees!
22 years after Myers' classic global hotspot analysis, comes this massive new @sPlot_iDiv study led by Francesco Sabatini.
One big take-home: Andes-Amazon species richness is very high, no matter the plot size.
Much more too here
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We know where #biodiversity #hotspots are in the world. But these were only identified based on the number of species occurring in a region (i.e. gamma diversity).
Whether a region contains species-poor or species-rich ecosystems is a different matter
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Using 1000's of vegetation plots to show global patterns of alpha diversity and "scaling anomalies" in vegetation. Big collaborative work from #sPlot lead by F. Sabatini.