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

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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.

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demography, flowering, general flowering, masting, plant reproduction, recruitment, regeneration, Ecology, Ecosystem, Plants, Reproduction, Seeds

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Glob Chang Biol

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1354-1013
1365-2486

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Wiley
Sponsorship
Embrapa (SEG 12.13.07.007.00.00)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (32001310)
Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S00713X/1, NE/S007857/1)
U.S. Forest Service (RJVA‐PNW‐01‐JV‐11261952‐231)
National Science Foundation (DEB‐0080609, DEB‐0423442, DEB‐0620579, DEB‐1026415, DEB‐1636476, DEB‐8702629, DEB‐9211769, DEB‐9810217)
Polish National Science Foundation (2019/33/B/NZ8/01345)
Austrian Science Fund (P30381)
Klima‐ und Energiefonds (KR16AC0K13339)