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The GenTree Platform: growth traits and tree-level environmental data in 12 European forest tree species

2021; University of Oxford; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/gigascience/giab010

2047-217X

Lars Opgenoorth, Benjamin Dauphin, Raquel Benavides, Katrin Heer, Paraskevi Alizoti, Elisabet Martínez‐Sancho, Ricardo Alı́a, Olivier Ambrosio, Albet Audrey, Francisco Auñón, Camilla Avanzi, Evangelia V. Avramidou, Francesca Bagnoli, Evangelos Barbas, Cristina C. Bastías, Catherine Bastien, Eduardo Ballesteros, Giorgia Beffa, Frédéric Bernier, Henri Bignalet, Guillaume Bodineau, Damien Bouic, Sabine Brodbeck, William Brunetto, Jurata Buchovska, Melanie Buy, Ana M Cabanillas-Saldaña, Bárbara Carvalho, Nicolas Cheval, José Climent, Marianne Corréard, Eva Cremer, Darius Danusevičius, Fernando Del Caño, Jean-Luc Denou, Nicolas di Gerardi, Bernard Dokhelar, Alexis Ducousso, Anne Eskild Nilsen, Anna‐Maria Farsakoglou, Patrick Fonti, Ioannis Ganopoulos, José M. García del Barrio, Olivier Gilg, Santiago C. González‐Martínez, René Graf, Alan Gray, Delphine Grivet, Félix Gugerli, Christoph Hartleitner, Enja Hollenbach, Agathe Hurel, Bernard Issehut, Florence Jean, Véronique Jorge, Arnaud Jouineau, Jan‐Philipp Kappner, Katri Kärkkäinen, Robert Kesälahti, Florian Knutzen, Sonja T. Kujala, Timo A. Kumpula, Mariaceleste Labriola, Céline Lalanne, Johannes Lambertz, Martin Lascoux, Vincent Lejeune, Grégoire Le Provost, Joseph Levillain, Mirko Liesebach, David López‐Quiroga, Benjamin Mason Meier, Ermioni Malliarou, Jérémy Marchon, Nicolas Mariotte, Antonio Más, Silvia Matesanz, Helge Meischner, Célia Michotey, Pascal Milesi, Sandro Morganti, Daniel Nievergelt, Eduardo Notivol, Geir Østreng, Birte Pakull, Annika Perry, Andrea Piotti, Christophe Plomion, Nicolas Poinot, Mehdi Pringarbe, Luc Puzos, Tanja Pyhäjärvi, Annie Raffin, José Alberto Ramírez‐Valiente, Christian Rellstab, Dourthe Remi, Sebastian Richter, Juan José Robledo‐Arnuncio, Sergio San Segundo, Outi Savolainen, Silvio Schueler, Volker Schneck, Ivan Scotti, В. Л. Семериков, Lenka Slámová, Jørn Henrik Sønstebø, Ilaria Spanu, Jean Thévenet, Mari Mette Tollefsrud, Norbert Turion, Giovanni G. Vendramin, Marc Villar, Georg von Arx, Johan Westin, Bruno Fady, Tor Myking, Fernando Valladares, Filippos A. Aravanopoulos, Stephen Cavers,

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Progress in the field of evolutionary forest ecology has been hampered by the huge challenge of phenotyping trees across their ranges in their natural environments, and the limitation in high-resolution environmental information. The GenTree Platform contains phenotypic and environmental data from 4,959 trees from 12 ecologically and economically important European forest tree species: Abies alba Mill. (silver fir), Betula pendula Roth. (silver birch), Fagus sylvatica L. (European beech), Picea abies (L.) H. Karst (Norway spruce), Pinus cembra L. (Swiss stone pine), Pinus halepensis Mill. (Aleppo pine), Pinus nigra Arnold (European black pine), Pinus pinaster Aiton (maritime pine), Pinus sylvestris L. (Scots pine), Populus nigra L. (European black poplar), Taxus baccata L. (English yew), and Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. (sessile oak). Phenotypic (height, diameter at breast height, crown size, bark thickness, biomass, straightness, forking, branch angle, fructification), regeneration, environmental in situ measurements (soil depth, vegetation cover, competition indices), and environmental modeling data extracted by using bilinear interpolation accounting for surrounding conditions of each tree (precipitation, temperature, insolation, drought indices) were obtained from trees in 194 sites covering the species' geographic ranges and reflecting local environmental gradients. The GenTree Platform is a new resource for investigating ecological and evolutionary processes in forest trees. The coherent phenotyping and environmental characterization across 12 species in their European ranges allow for a wide range of analyses from forest ecologists, conservationists, and macro-ecologists. Also, the data here presented can be linked to the GenTree Dendroecological collection, the GenTree Leaf Trait collection, and the GenTree Genomic collection presented elsewhere, which together build the largest evolutionary forest ecology data collection available.