SPORBERT, Maria, Helge BRUELHEIDE, Gunnar SEIDLER, Petr KEIL, Ute JANDT, Gunnar AUSTRHEIM, Idoia BIURRUN, Juan Antonio CAMPOS, Andraž ČARNI, Milan CHYTRÝ, János CSIKY, Els DE BIE, Jürgen DENGLER, Valentin GOLUB, John‐Arvid GRYTNE, Adrian INDREICA, Florian JANSEN, Martin JIROUŠEK, Jonathan LENOIR, Miska LUOTO, Corrado MARCENÒ, Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Aaron PÉREZ‐HAASE, Solvita RŪSIŅA, Vigdis VANDVIK, Kiril VASSILEV and Erik WELK. Assessing sampling coverage of species distribution in biodiversity databases. Journal of Vegetation Science. Hoboken, USA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019, vol. 30, No 4, p. 620-632. ISSN 1100-9233. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12763.
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Original name Assessing sampling coverage of species distribution in biodiversity databases
Authors SPORBERT, Maria (276 Germany), Helge BRUELHEIDE (276 Germany), Gunnar SEIDLER (276 Germany), Petr KEIL (276 Germany), Ute JANDT (276 Germany), Gunnar AUSTRHEIM (578 Norway), Idoia BIURRUN (724 Spain), Juan Antonio CAMPOS (724 Spain), Andraž ČARNI (705 Slovenia), Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), János CSIKY (100 Bulgaria), Els DE BIE (56 Belgium), Jürgen DENGLER (276 Germany), Valentin GOLUB (643 Russian Federation), John‐Arvid GRYTNE (578 Norway), Adrian INDREICA (642 Romania), Florian JANSEN (276 Germany), Martin JIROUŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jonathan LENOIR (250 France), Miska LUOTO (246 Finland), Corrado MARCENÒ (380 Italy), Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND (208 Denmark), Aaron PÉREZ‐HAASE (724 Spain), Solvita RŪSIŅA (440 Lithuania), Vigdis VANDVIK (578 Norway), Kiril VASSILEV (100 Bulgaria) and Erik WELK (276 Germany).
Edition Journal of Vegetation Science, Hoboken, USA, Wiley-Blackwell, 2019, 1100-9233.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10611 Plant sciences, botany
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 2.698
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/19:00108126
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12763
UT WoS 000474629200004
Keywords in English Chorological Database Halle (CDH); climatic niche; Dynamic Match Coefficient (DMC); European Vegetation Archive (EVA); macro-ecology; multi-scale; realized niche; sampling bias; spatial scale; species range; vascular plant; vegetation plot databases
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Abstract
Aim Biodiversity databases are valuable resources for understanding plant species distributions and dynamics, but they may insufficiently represent the actual geographic distribution and climatic niches of species. Here we propose and test a method to assess sampling coverage of species distribution in biodiversity databases in geographic and climatic space. Location Europe. Methods Using a test selection of 808,794 vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive (EVA), we assessed the sampling coverage of 564 European vascular plant species across both their geographic ranges and realized climatic niches. Range maps from the Chorological Database Halle (CDH) were used as background reference data to capture species geographic ranges and to derive species climatic niches. To quantify sampling coverage, we developed a box-counting method, the Dynamic Match Coefficient (DMC), which quantifies how much a set of occurrences of a given species matches with its geographic range or climatic niche. DMC is the area under the curve measuring the match between occurrence data and background reference (geographic range or climatic niche) across grids with variable resolution. High DMC values indicate good sampling coverage. We applied null models to compare observed DMC values with expectations from random distributions across species ranges and niches. Results Comparisons with null models showed that, for most species, actual distributions within EVA are deviating from null model expectations and are more clumped than expected in both geographic and climatic space. Despite high interspecific variation, we found a positive relationship in DMC values between geographic and climatic space, but sampling coverage was in general more random across geographic space. Conclusion Because DMC values are species-specific and most biodiversity databases are clearly biased in terms of sampling coverage of species occurrences, we recommend using DMC values as covariates in macro-ecological models that use species as the observation unit.
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GX19-28491X, research and development projectName: Centrum pro evropské vegetační syntézy (CEVS) (Acronym: CEVS)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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