José Luis Benito Alonso

Freelance Natural Resources Professional. Independent Botanical Consultor & book editor

Spain

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José Luis Benito Alonso is a Freelance Natural Resources Professional and Independent Botanical Consultant & Book Editor at Jolube Consultor Botánico y Editor. He is based in Spain and focuses his research on vegetation dynamics, soil temperature, and plant diversity across various ecosystems. His recent publications include studies on the effects of climate change on litter decomposition and the benchmarking of plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands.

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Aims We introduce ReSurveyEurope — a new data source of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe, compiled by a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. We describe the scope of this initiative, provide an overview of currently available data, governance, data contribution rules, and accessibility. In addition, we outline further steps, including potential research questions. Results ReSurveyEurope includes resurveyed vegetation plots from all habitats. Version 1.0 of ReSurveyEurope contains 283,135 observations (i.e., individual surveys of each plot) from 79,190 plots sampled in 449 independent resurvey projects. Of these, 62,139 (78%) are permanent plots, that is, marked in situ, or located with GPS, which allow for high spatial accuracy in resurvey. The remaining 17,051 (22%) plots are from studies in which plots from the initial survey could not be exactly relocated. Four data sets, which together account for 28,470 (36%) plots, provide only presence/absence information on plant species, while the remaining 50,720 (64%) plots contain abundance information (e.g., percentage cover or cover–abundance classes such as variants of the Braun‐Blanquet scale). The oldest plots were sampled in 1911 in the Swiss Alps, while most plots were sampled between 1950 and 2020. Conclusions ReSurveyEurope is a new resource to address a wide range of research questions on fine‐scale changes in European vegetation. The initiative is devoted to an inclusive and transparent governance and data usage approach, based on slightly adapted rules of the well‐established European Vegetation Archive (EVA). ReSurveyEurope data are ready for use, and proposals for analyses of the data set can be submitted at any time to the coordinators. Still, further data contributions are highly welcome.

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Sabine Rumpf

Prof. Dr. at University of Basel

University of Basel

SWITZERLAND

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<scp>ReSurveyEurope</scp>: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

Global maps of soil temperature.

Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes

A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains

Notas corológicas para el Atlas de la Flora de los Pirineos, I. Sierra de Guara (Prepirineo aragonés)

SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

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Sabine Rumpf

Juan Antonio Campos

Jalil Noroozi

Arne Verstraeten

Sonia Merinero

Angelika Schwabe

Christian Rossi

Estela Illa

Henning Meesenburg

Juha Aalto

Natascha Kljun

Karibu Fukuzawa

Michael Glaser

Elena Barni

Naomi Schwartz

Juergen Kreyling

Radim Matula

Iwona Dembicz

Łukasz Kozub

Kathrin Kiehl

Marian Pavelka

Carly Stevens

Marie-Anne de Graaff

Bogdan Jaroszewicz

Dirk Wundram

Josep M. Ninot

Sonja Wipf

Stef Bokhorst

Michele Carbognani

Esther Lévesque

Sarah Bürli (she/her)

Radosław Juszczak

Eva Šmerdová

Romina D. Dimarco

Helge Bruelheide

Remigiusz Pielech

María Pilar Rodríguez Rojo

Jean-Paul Theurillat

Franz Essl

Milan Chytrý

Jan Roleček

Andrew Thomas

Bart Vandevoorde

Corrado Marcenò

Jörg Brunet

Stefan Stoll

Ana I. Lillebø

Ute Hamer

Todd Erickson

Hans Van Calster

Andrea Lamprecht

Matthew Vadeboncoeur

Rien Aerts

Bernd Lenzner

Lander Baeten

M. Teresa Sebastià

Miguel Ángel de Pablo

Julia Kemppinen

Sam Provoost

Anna-Maria Virkkala

François Gillet

Josef Urban

Marta Czarniecka-Wiera

Robert Peet

Robert Marrs