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NA-US-008 - Plant Community Survey and Resurvey Data from the Wisconsin Plant Ecology Laboratory
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Waller, Donald et al.
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NA-US-008
Registered since:
2010-08-31
Last update:
2019-05-02
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http://www.botany.wisc.edu/PEL/
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This unique data set includes sites from multiple habitat types resampled 50+ years apart. >1000 sites were sampled throughout Wisconsin in the 1950s by John Curtis et al., and ~350 of these have been resampled. The 1950s tree data were collected using distance-based methods and the presence of groundlayer species was recorded within ~20 1m2 quadrats. The methods used in the 2000s vary by habitat, but the groundlayer was sampled more intensively at 40-120 1m2 quadrats.
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The work of the Wisconsin plant ecology laboratory (PEL) was initiated by John Curtis in the 1940’s in an effort to better understand the nature of variation among plant communities. John Curtis and his students surveyed over 1400 sites across Wisconsin, inventing new techniques to sample and compare plant communities. Analyses of these data including ordination led Curtis to develop his ‘continuum’ concept that individual species respond individually to environmental gradients. These sites cover a wide range of Wisconsin`s native plant communities including upland and lowland forests, prairies, savannas, meadows, sand barrens, dunes, fens, bogs, and cliffs. Data from each site include species lists and often quantitative data like percent cover by species for the open communities. Data for the forested sites usually includes plotless estimates of overstory conditions (the frequency and size of ~80 trees at each site) as well as the frequency of understory species among 20-40 spaced 1 m2 quadrats. In recent years, researchers have revisited many of these Curtis sites, including forest, prairie, savanna, and cedar glade communities. These re-surveys use the original or comparable sampling protocols but usually more quadrats and environmental data. At some sites, we have also used new sampling protocols to compare, evaluate, and improve methods for sampling plant communities. The large number of sites and species and the 50+ years that have elapsed between samples allow us to evaluate trends in detail with considerable statistical power. We are now using these resample data to characterize ecological change in quantitative detail, identify the key drivers of change, and inform the public and improve management. We are also extending the value of these legacy data by measuring some 30+ functional traits for many of the forest species.
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Canada
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Brunei
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Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Is.
Central African Rep.
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Chile
China
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Congo (Brazzaville)
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Cook Is.
Costa Rica
Croatia
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Libya
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Mali
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Mexico
Micronesia
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Mongolia
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Netherlands
New Caledonia
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Nigeria
Niue
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Spain
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St. Martin
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St. Vin. and Gren.
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
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Tuvalu
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Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
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Vietnam
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Yemen
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Aland
Albania
Algeria
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Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barb.
Argentina
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Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
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Bangladesh
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Colombia
Comoros
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Cook Is.
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Curacao
Cyprus
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Rep.
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eq. Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Is.
Faroe Is.
Fiji
Finland
Fr. Polynesia
Fr. S. and Antarctic Lands
France
French Guiana
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Heard I. and McDonald Is.
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indian Ocean Ter.
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
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Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
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Portugal
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Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
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Samoa
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Serbia
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Singapore
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Slovenia
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Spain
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Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
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Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
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Turkey
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Curtis, J.T. 1959. The Vegetation of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, US. Rooney, T. P., S. M. Wiegmann, D. A. Rogers and D. M. Waller. 2004. Biotic impoverishment and homogenization in unfragmented forest understory communities. Conservation Biology 18: 787-798. Rooney, T. P., D. A. Rogers, S. M. Wiegmann and D. M. Waller. 2004. Monitoring non-native plant invasions over 50 years in Wisconsin forests. Weed Technology 18: 1266-1268. Weigmann, S.M. and D.M. Waller. 2006. Fifty years of change in in northern upland forest understories: Identity and traits of "winners" and "loser" plant species. Biological Conservation 129:109-123. Hale, B.W., Alsum, E.M., & Adams, M.S. 2008. Changes in the floodplain forest vegetation of the Lower Wisconsin River over the last fifty years. The American Midland Naturalist 160: 454-476. Bushman, M. 2006. Plant species change in northern Wisconsin wet-mesic forest communities from 1952 to 2005. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, US. Londré, R.A. and S.A. Schnitzer (2006). The distribution of lianas and their change in abundance in temperate forests over the past 45 years. Ecology 87: 2973-2978. Waller, D.M., and T.P. Rooney, eds. 2008. The vanishing present: Wisconsin`s changing lands, waters, and wildlife. Univ. of Chicago Press. Kraszewski, S. E. and D. M. Waller. 2008. Fifty-five year changes in species composition on dry prairie remnants in south-central Wisconsin. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135(2), 235-243. Rogers, D. A., T. P. Rooney, D. Olson, and D. M. Waller. 2008. Shifts in southern Wisconsin forest canopy and understory richness, composition , and heterogeneity. Ecology 89: 2482-2492. Rooney, T. P. 2008. Comparison of co-occurrence structure of temperate forest herb-layer communities in 1949 and 2000. Acta Oecologica. Mills, J.E. 2008. Fifty Years of Change in Wisconsin Cedar Glades. The American Midland Naturalist 159: 214-224. Rogers, D. A. , T. P. Rooney, T. J. Hawbaker, V. C. Radeloff and D. M. Waller. 2009. Paying the extinction debt in southern Wisconsin forest understories. Conservation Biology 23: 1497-1506. Mudrak, E. L., S. E. Johnson and D. M. Waller. 2009. Forty-seven year changes in vegetation at the Apostle Island: Effects of deer on forest understory. Natural Areas Journal 29:167-176. Amatangelo, K.L., M.R. Fulton, D.A. Rogers, and D.M. Waller. 2011. Converging forest community composition along an edaphic gradient threatens landscape-level diversity. Diversity and Distributions 17: 201-213.
Overlap with other databases
Other overlapping databases
Plant Ecology Laboratory Plant Trait Database Plant Ecology Laboratory Landscape Change Database
Plottypes
(fact sheet)
normal plots
nested plots
time series
Which plot types have been used?
Number of different sources from which vegetation-plots have been included
Bibliographic references of the vegetation-plot sources.
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If your database overlaps significantly with another database please disclose the name of this/these database(s) here, and list in brackets after each database name or code the approximate number of joint vegetation-plot.
Number of locations
Start Year:
End Year:
Repetition
more than once a year
every year
every 2 years
every 3-10 years
less than every 10 years
other
other:
Max number of observations in one series
Mean number of observations in one series
Time series
Number of series
Max. plot-size range
smallest:
largest:
m²
m²
Max number of plot sizes in one series
Mean number of plot sizes in one series
Nested-plot series
Comments on plot-design
The 513 plots that have `time series` data are divided into different habitat types that were sampled by different teams of researchers. They were each sampled once in the 1940s/50s and once again in the 2000s. Plot designs varied between distance-based and area-based sampling for trees and the groundlayer was sampled within 20-80 1m2 quadrats distributed throughout the plot area.
The following numbers refer to data you really have, but not to data you are going to collect in the future. So, please no potential vegetation-plots!
Number of veg.-plots with non-overlapping area
(fact sheet)
Number of veg.-plots observations
(fact sheet)
Estimate of existing non-overlapping veg.-plots
(fact sheet)
Completeness
2147483647
The following questions refer to the total number of vegetation-plots!
Plot Sizes
(fact sheet)
min:
m² - max:
m²
(Note that only plot sizes up to 2 ha are eligible for GIVD; additional larger plot sizes are only possible in the case of nested-plot series that also contain smaller plots. see 'Criteria for inclusion')
Plot size categories
< 1 m²
1 - 10 m²
10 - 100 m²
100 - 1000 m²
1000 - 10000 m²
> 10000 m²
unknown
Years
oldest:
youngest:
Decades
(fact sheet)
< 1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-2019
after 2020
unknown
Covered countries
(fact sheet)
Country
Percentage
Afghanistan
Aland
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barb.
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herz.
Botswana
Br. Indian Ocean Ter.
Brazil
British Virgin Is.
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Is.
Central African Rep.
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Cook Is.
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Curacao
Cyprus
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Rep.
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eq. Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Is.
Faroe Is.
Fiji
Finland
Fr. Polynesia
Fr. S. and Antarctic Lands
France
French Guiana
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Heard I. and McDonald Is.
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indian Ocean Ter.
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Is.
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
N. Cyprus
N. Korea
N. Mariana Is.
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Is.
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
S. Geo. and S. Sandw. Is.
S. Korea
S. Sudan
Saint Helena
Saint Lucia
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Is.
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Barthelemy
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Martin
St. Pierre and Miquelon
St. Vin. and Gren.
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Is.
Tuvalu
U.S. Virgin Is.
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican
Venezuela
Vietnam
W. Sahara
Wallis and Futuna
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Afghanistan
Aland
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barb.
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herz.
Botswana
Br. Indian Ocean Ter.
Brazil
British Virgin Is.
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Is.
Central African Rep.
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Cook Is.
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Curacao
Cyprus
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Rep.
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eq. Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Is.
Faroe Is.
Fiji
Finland
Fr. Polynesia
Fr. S. and Antarctic Lands
France
French Guiana
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Heard I. and McDonald Is.
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indian Ocean Ter.
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Is.
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
N. Cyprus
N. Korea
N. Mariana Is.
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Is.
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
S. Geo. and S. Sandw. Is.
S. Korea
S. Sudan
Saint Helena
Saint Lucia
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Is.
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Barthelemy
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Martin
St. Pierre and Miquelon
St. Vin. and Gren.
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Is.
Tuvalu
U.S. Virgin Is.
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican
Venezuela
Vietnam
W. Sahara
Wallis and Futuna
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Guilds
(fact sheet)
woody vascular plants:
herbaceous vascular plants
bryophytes (terricolous or aquatic)
lichens (terricolous or aquatic)
algae (terricolous or aquatic)
non-terricolous taxa (epiphytic, saxicolous, lignicolous)
Performance measure
(fact sheet)
presence/absence only
cover
number of individuals
measurements like diameter or height of trees
biomass
other
Phytosociological classification
from primary source
with uniform classification
Geographic localisation
(fact sheet)
GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less)
point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km
small grid (not coarser than 10 km)
political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km)
Structural data
cover of vegetation layers
height of vegetation layers
Environmental data
(fact sheet)
altitude
slope aspect
slope inclination
microrelief
surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.)
other soil attributes
soil pH
land use categories
soil depth
other attributes
N, P, K, % sand, % silt, % clay, Ca, Mg
i.e. names of the other soil attributes if you filled in a fraction above
Insert the number of Plots (not percentages!) for each formation.
(fact sheet)
Formations
non-assigned vegetation plots:
2582
Forest
Non Forest
Number of taxon names
Number of valid taxa
(fact sheet)
Plant nomenclature: general
USDA Plants
Publication(s) describing the data
see `sources` above
DB related publication DOI
Publication(s) analysing the data
see `sources` above
Classification(s) using the database
Comments