| Literature DB >> 30220729 |
Kris Verheyen1, Pieter De Frenne2, Lander Baeten3, Donald M Waller4, Radim Hédl5, Michael P Perring6, Haben Blondeel7, Jörg Brunet8, Markéeta Chudomelova9, Guillaume Decocq10, Emiel De Lombaerde11, Leen Depauw12, Thomas Dirnböck13, Tomasz Durak14, Ove Eriksson15, Frank S Gilliam16, Thilo Heinken17, Steffi Heinrichs18, Martin Hermy19, Bogdan Jaroszewicz20, Michael A Jenkins21, Sarah E Johnson22, Keith J Kirby23, Martin Kopecký24, Dries Landuyt25, Jonathan Lenoir26, Daijiang Li27, Martin Macek28, Sybryn Maes29, Frantisek Máliš30, Fraser J G Mitchell31, Tobias Naaf32, George Peterken33, Petr Petřík34, Kamila Reczyńska35, David A Rogers36, Fride Hoistad Schei37, Wolfgang Schmidt38, Tibor Standovár39, Krzystof Świerkosz40, Karol Ujházy41, Hans Van Calster42, Mark Vellend43, Ondřej Vild44, Kerry Woods45, Monika Wulf46, Markus Bernhard-Römermann47.
Abstract
More and more ecologists have started to resurvey communities sampled in earlier decades to determine long-term shifts in community composition and infer the likely drivers of the ecological changes observed. However, to assess the relative importance of, and interactions among, multiple drivers joint analyses of resurvey data from many regions spanning large environmental gradients are needed. In this paper we illustrate how combining resurvey data from multiple regions can increase the likelihood of driver-orthogonality within the design and show that repeatedly surveying across multiple regions provides higher representativeness and comprehensiveness, allowing us to answer more completely a broader range of questions. We provide general guidelines to aid implementation of multi-region resurvey databases. In so doing, we aim to encourage resurvey database development across other community types and biomes to advance global environmental change research.Entities:
Keywords: (quasi-)permanent plots; community ecology; ground layer vegetation; legacy data; temperate forest
Year: 2016 PMID: 30220729 PMCID: PMC6136644 DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw150
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioscience ISSN: 0006-3568 Impact factor: 8.589