MASTREE+: Time‐series of plant reproductive effort from six continents

Abstract

Significant gaps remain in understanding the response of plant reproduction to environmental change. This is partly because measuring reproduction in long-lived plants requires direct observation over many years and such datasets have rarely been made publicly available. Here we introduce MASTREE+, a data set that collates reproductive time-series data from across the globe and makes these data freely available to the community. MASTREE+ includes 73,828 georeferenced observations of annual reproduction (e.g. seed and fruit counts) in perennial plant populations worldwide. These observations consist of 5971 population-level time-series from 974 species in 66 countries. The mean and median time-series length is 12.4 and 10 years respectively, and the data set includes 1122 series that extend over at least two decades (≥20 years of observations). For a subset of well-studied species, MASTREE+ includes extensive replication of time-series across geographical and climatic gradients. Here we describe the open-access data set, available as a.csv file, and we introduce an associated web-based app for data exploration. MASTREE+ will provide the basis for improved understanding of the response of long-lived plant reproduction to environmental change. Additionally, MASTREE+ will enable investigation of the ecology and evolution of reproductive strategies in perennial plants, and the role of plant reproduction as a driver of ecosystem dynamics.

Citation

Hacket‐Pain, Andrew; Foest, Jessie J.; Pearse, Ian S.; LaMontagne, Jalene M.; Koenig, Walter D.; Vacchiano, Giorgio; Bogdziewicz, Michał; Caignard, Thomas; Celebias, Paulina; Dormolen, Joep; Fernández‐Martínez, Marcos; Moris, Jose V.; Palaghianu, Ciprian; Pesendorfer, Mario; Satake, Akiko; Schermer, Eliane; Tanentzap, Andrew J.; Thomas, Peter A.; Vecchio, Davide; Wion, Andreas P.; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Xue, Tingting; Abernethy, Katharine; Aravena Acuña, Marie‐Claire; Daniel Barrera, Marcelo; Barton, Jessica H.; Boutin, Stan; Bush, Emma R.; Donoso Calderón, Sergio; Carevic, Felipe S.; Castilho, Carolina Volkmer; Manuel Cellini, Juan; Chapman, Colin A.; Chapman, Hazel; Chianucci, Francesco; Costa, Patricia; Croisé, Luc; Cutini, Andrea; Dantzer, Ben; Justin DeRose, R.; Dikangadissi, Jean‐Thoussaint; Dimoto, Edmond; Fonseca, Fernanda Lopes; Gallo, Leonardo; Gratzer, Georg; Greene, David F.; Hadad, Martín A.; Herrera, Alejandro Huertas; Jeffery, Kathryn J.; Johnstone, Jill F.; Kalbitzer, Urs; Kantorowicz, Władysław; Klimas, Christie A.; Lageard, Jonathan G. A.; Lane, Jeffrey; Lapin, Katharina; Ledwoń, Mateusz; Leeper, Abigail C.; Vanessa Lencinas, Maria; Lira‐Guedes, Ana Cláudia; Lordon, Michael C.; Marchelli, Paula; Marino, Shealyn; Schmidt Van Marle, Harald; McAdam, Andrew G.; Momont, Ludovic R. W.; Nicolas, Manuel; Oliveira Wadt, Lúcia Helena; Panahi, Parisa; Martínez Pastur, Guillermo; Patterson, Thomas; Luis Peri, Pablo; Piechnik, Łukasz; Pourhashemi, Mehdi; Espinoza Quezada, Claudia; Roig, Fidel A.; Peña Rojas, Karen; Micaela Rosas, Yamina; Schueler, Silvio; Seget, Barbara; Soler, Rosina; Steele, Michael A.; Toro‐Manríquez, Mónica; Tutin, Caroline E. G.; Ukizintambara, Tharcisse; White, Lee; Yadok, Biplang; Willis, John L.; Zolles, Anita; Żywiec, Magdalena; Ascoli, Davide. 2022. MASTREE+: Time‐series of plant reproductive effort from six continents. Global Change Biology. 28: 3066-3082. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16130.