Data from: The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation
Forest understories play a vital role in ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services. However, the extent to which environmental conditions drive dominant ecological strategies in forest understories at the continental scale remains understudied. Here, we used ~29,500 forest vegeta...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4898313 2024-09-15T18:06:01+00:00 Data from: The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation Padullés Cubino, Josep Biurrun, Idoia Bonari, Gianmaria Braslavskaya, Tatiana Font, Xavier Jandt, Ute Jansen, Florian Rašomavičius, Valerijus Willner, Wolfgang Chytrý, Milan 2021-06-03 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mkkwh710j unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mkkwh710j oai:zenodo.org:4898313 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode EVA database leaf economic spectrum plant size spectrum trait diversity forest understory community vegetation-plot data info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2021 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mkkwh710j 2024-07-25T10:10:30Z Forest understories play a vital role in ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services. However, the extent to which environmental conditions drive dominant ecological strategies in forest understories at the continental scale remains understudied. Here, we used ~29,500 forest vegetation plots sampled across Europe and classified into 25 forest types to explore the relative role of macroclimate, soil pH, and tree canopy cover in driving abundance-weighted patterns in the leaf economic spectrum (LES) and plant size spectrum (PSS) of forest understories (shrub and herb layers). We calculated LES using specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf dry matter content (LDMC), and PSS using plant height and seed mass of vascular plant species found in the understories. We found that forest understories had more conservative leaf economics in areas with more extreme mean annual temperatures (mainly Fennoscandia and the Mediterranean Basin), more extreme soil pH, and under more open canopies. Warm and summer-dry regions around the Mediterranean Basin and areas of Atlantic Europe also had taller understories with heavier seeds than continental temperate or boreal areas. Understories of broadleaved deciduous forests, such as Fagus forests on non-acid soils, or ravine forests, more commonly hosted species with acquisitive leaf economics. In contrast, some coniferous forests, such as Pinus, Larix, and Picea mire forests, or Pinus sylvestris light taiga, and sclerophyllous forests, more commonly hosted species with conservative leaf economics. Our findings highlight the importance of macroclimate and soil factors in driving trait variation of understory communities at the continental scale and the mediator effect of canopy cover on these relationships. We also provide the first maps and analyses of LES and PSS of forest understories across Europe and give evidence that the understories of European forest types are positioned along different major axes of trait variation. This dataset contains the list of plant ... Other/Unknown Material Fennoscandia taiga Zenodo |
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EVA database leaf economic spectrum plant size spectrum trait diversity forest understory community vegetation-plot data Padullés Cubino, Josep Biurrun, Idoia Bonari, Gianmaria Braslavskaya, Tatiana Font, Xavier Jandt, Ute Jansen, Florian Rašomavičius, Valerijus Willner, Wolfgang Chytrý, Milan Data from: The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation |
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Forest understories play a vital role in ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services. However, the extent to which environmental conditions drive dominant ecological strategies in forest understories at the continental scale remains understudied. Here, we used ~29,500 forest vegetation plots sampled across Europe and classified into 25 forest types to explore the relative role of macroclimate, soil pH, and tree canopy cover in driving abundance-weighted patterns in the leaf economic spectrum (LES) and plant size spectrum (PSS) of forest understories (shrub and herb layers). We calculated LES using specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf dry matter content (LDMC), and PSS using plant height and seed mass of vascular plant species found in the understories. We found that forest understories had more conservative leaf economics in areas with more extreme mean annual temperatures (mainly Fennoscandia and the Mediterranean Basin), more extreme soil pH, and under more open canopies. Warm and summer-dry regions around the Mediterranean Basin and areas of Atlantic Europe also had taller understories with heavier seeds than continental temperate or boreal areas. Understories of broadleaved deciduous forests, such as Fagus forests on non-acid soils, or ravine forests, more commonly hosted species with acquisitive leaf economics. In contrast, some coniferous forests, such as Pinus, Larix, and Picea mire forests, or Pinus sylvestris light taiga, and sclerophyllous forests, more commonly hosted species with conservative leaf economics. Our findings highlight the importance of macroclimate and soil factors in driving trait variation of understory communities at the continental scale and the mediator effect of canopy cover on these relationships. We also provide the first maps and analyses of LES and PSS of forest understories across Europe and give evidence that the understories of European forest types are positioned along different major axes of trait variation. This dataset contains the list of plant ... |
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Padullés Cubino, Josep Biurrun, Idoia Bonari, Gianmaria Braslavskaya, Tatiana Font, Xavier Jandt, Ute Jansen, Florian Rašomavičius, Valerijus Willner, Wolfgang Chytrý, Milan |
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Padullés Cubino, Josep Biurrun, Idoia Bonari, Gianmaria Braslavskaya, Tatiana Font, Xavier Jandt, Ute Jansen, Florian Rašomavičius, Valerijus Willner, Wolfgang Chytrý, Milan |
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Data from: The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation |
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Data from: The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation |
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Data from: The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation |
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data from: the leaf economic and plant size spectra of european forest understory vegetation |
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