sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

JOURNAL ARTICLE published September 2021 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Research funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR‐07‐BDIV‐0006,ANR‐07‐BDIV‐0008,ANR‐07‐BDIV‐0010) | H2020 European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant 291585 “T‐FORCES”,ERC‐SyG‐2013‐610028 IMBALANCE‐P) | Villum Fonden (16549) | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG FZT 118,202548816,DFG Ho3296‐2,DFG Ho3296‐4,DFG VA 749/1‐1,DFG VA 749/4‐1,DFG WE 2601/3‐1 3‐2 4‐1 4‐2) | Narodowe Centrum Nauki (2017/25/B/NZ8/00572) | National Sleep Foundation (DEB‐0415383) | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (640176) | National Science Foundation (DBI‐0213794,DBI‐9905838) | Grantová Agentura České Republiky (19‐28491X) | Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung Halle-Jena-Leipzig (50170649_#7) | Fundación BBVA (BIOCON08_044) | Akademie Věd České Republiky (RVO 67985939) | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI/10.13039/501100011033) | National Research, Development and Innovation Office (PD‐12399) | Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (20BD21_184131) | Eusko Jaurlaritza (640176) | Russian Foundation for Basic Research (16‐04‐00747a) | Volkswagen Foundation (AZ I/81 976)

Authors: Francesco Maria Sabatini | Jonathan Lenoir | Tarek Hattab | Elise Aimee Arnst | Milan Chytrý | Jürgen Dengler | Patrice De Ruffray | Stephan M. Hennekens | Ute Jandt | Florian Jansen | Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro | Jens Kattge | Aurora Levesley | Valério D. Pillar | Oliver Purschke | Brody Sandel | Fahmida Sultana | Tsipe Aavik | Svetlana Aćić | Alicia T. R. Acosta | Emiliano Agrillo | Miguel Alvarez | Iva Apostolova | Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan | Luzmila Arroyo | Fabio Attorre | Isabelle Aubin | Arindam Banerjee | Marijn Bauters | Yves Bergeron | Erwin Bergmeier | Idoia Biurrun | Anne D. Bjorkman | Gianmaria Bonari | Viktoria Bondareva | Jörg Brunet | Andraž Čarni | Laura Casella | Luis Cayuela | Tomáš Černý | Victor Chepinoga | János Csiky | Renata Ćušterevska | Els De Bie | André Luis de Gasper | Michele De Sanctis | Panayotis Dimopoulos | Jiri Dolezal | Tetiana Dziuba | Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa El‐Sheikh | Brian Enquist | Jörg Ewald | Farideh Fazayeli | Richard Field | Manfred Finckh | Sophie Gachet | Antonio Galán‐de‐Mera | Emmanuel Garbolino | Hamid Gholizadeh | Melisa Giorgis | Valentin Golub | Inger Greve Alsos | John‐Arvid Grytnes | Gregory Richard Guerin | Alvaro G. Gutiérrez | Sylvia Haider | Mohamed Z. Hatim | Bruno Hérault | Guillermo Hinojos Mendoza | Norbert Hölzel | Jürgen Homeier | Wannes Hubau | Adrian Indreica | John A. M. Janssen | Birgit Jedrzejek | Anke Jentsch | Norbert Jürgens | Zygmunt Kącki | Jutta Kapfer | Dirk Nikolaus Karger | Ali Kavgacı | Elizabeth Kearsley | Michael Kessler | Larisa Khanina | Timothy Killeen | Andrey Korolyuk | Holger Kreft | Hjalmar S. Kühl | Anna Kuzemko | Flavia Landucci | Attila Lengyel | Frederic Lens | Débora Vanessa Lingner | Hongyan Liu | Tatiana Lysenko | Miguel D. Mahecha | Corrado Marcenò | Vasiliy Martynenko | Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund | Abel Monteagudo Mendoza | Ladislav Mucina | Jonas V. Müller | Jérôme Munzinger | Alireza Naqinezhad | Jalil Noroozi | Arkadiusz Nowak | Viktor Onyshchenko | Gerhard E. Overbeck | Meelis Pärtel | Aníbal Pauchard | Robert K. Peet | Josep Peñuelas | Aaron Pérez‐Haase | Tomáš Peterka | Petr Petřík | Gwendolyn Peyre | Oliver L. Phillips | Vadim Prokhorov | Valerijus Rašomavičius | Rasmus Revermann | Gonzalo Rivas‐Torres | John S. Rodwell | Eszter Ruprecht | Solvita Rūsiņa | Cyrus Samimi | Marco Schmidt | Franziska Schrodt | Hanhuai Shan | Pavel Shirokikh | Jozef Šibík | Urban Šilc | Petr Sklenář | Željko Škvorc | Ben Sparrow | Marta Gaia Sperandii | Zvjezdana Stančić | Jens‐Christian Svenning | Zhiyao Tang | Cindy Q. Tang | Ioannis Tsiripidis | Kim André Vanselow | Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez | Kiril Vassilev | Eduardo Vélez‐Martin | Roberto Venanzoni | Alexander Christian Vibrans | Cyrille Violle | Risto Virtanen | Henrik von Wehrden | Viktoria Wagner | Donald A. Walker | Donald M. Waller | Hua‐Feng Wang | Karsten Wesche | Timothy J. S. Whitfeld | Wolfgang Willner | Susan K. Wiser | Thomas Wohlgemuth | Sergey Yamalov | Martin Zobel | Helge Bruelheide