ezequielscott/splotopen

sPlot - The global vegetation-plot database

sPlotOpen

sPlot - The global vegetation-plot database (Public repository -- Mirror)

Description

sPlotOpen is a large, open-access dataset of vegetation plots.

It contains data on 95,104 vegetation plots, organized in three partially overlapping, environmentally-balanced datasets (~50,000 plots each), to be used as replicates in global analyses.

Besides geographic location, date, plot size, biome, elevation, slope, aspect, vegetation type, naturalness, coverage of various vegetation layers and source dataset, plot-level data also include community-weighted means and variances of 18 plant functional traits from the ‘TRY’ database.

sPlotOpen has a global spatial extent; the spatial grain is 0.01-40,000 m². Plots were recorded between 1888 and 2015.

sPlotOpen contains data on 42,677 vascular plant species.

Archive content

• sPlotOpen_Metadata_dataset_3474.txt
• sPlotOpen_CWM_CWV.txt
• sPlotOpen_DT.txt
• sPlotOpen_header.txt
• sPlotOpen_metadata.txt
• sPlotOpen.RData
• sPlotOpen_references.bib
• Demo.pdf

File description

• sPlotOpen_Metadata_dataset_3474.txt - File describing the dataset
• sPlotOpen_CWM_CWV.txt - Community Weighted Means and Community Weighted Variance of all vegetation plots
• sPlotOpen_DT.txt - List of species and relative cover in each vegetation plot
• sPlotOpen_header.txt - Plot level information
• sPlotOpen_metadata.txt - Plot level metadata
• sPlotOpen.RData - RData containing all tables above
• sPlotOpen_references.bib - Reference list in BibTeX format
• Demo.pdf - A Notebook illustrating how sPlotOpen data can be imported and selected in R

All text files use the encoding: UTF-8. Please note that all .txt files should be opened as tab-delimited (not comma-delimited) text - the values in some variables are strings that contain commas. Missing values are indicated with the 'NA' placeholder.

A full data description is available at: https://fmsabatini.github.io/sPlotOpen_Manuscript/

This repository is fully based on:

Sabatini, F.M., Lenoir, J., Bruelheide, H. & the sPlot Consortium (2021) sPlotOpen – An environmentally-balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots (Version 2.0) [Dataset]. iDiv Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.25829/idiv.3474-bb7k72