WOODIV, a database of occurrences, functional traits, and phylogenetic data for all Euro-Mediterranean trees

Anne-Christine Monnet (1) , Kévin Cilleros (1) , Frédéric Médail (1) , Marwan Cheikh Albassatneh (2) , Juan Arroyo (3) , Gianluigi Bacchetta (4) , Francesca Bagnoli (5) , Zoltán Barina (6) , Manuel Cartereau (1) , Nicolas Casajus (7) , Panayotis Dimopoulos (8) , Gianniantonio Domina (9) , Aggeliki Doxa (1, 10) , Marcial Escudero (3) , Bruno Fady (11) , Arndt Hampe (12) , Vlado Matevski (13) , Stephen Misfud (14) , Toni Nikolic (15) , Daniel Pavon (1) , Anne Roig (11) , Estefania Santos Barea (3) , Ilaria Spanu (5) , Arne Strid (16) , Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin (5) , Agathe Leriche (1)

1 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
2 ISYEB - Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité
3 Universidad de Sevilla = University of Seville
4 Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
5 National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Biosciences and BioResources
6 Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum
7 FRB-CESAB
8 University of Patras
9 Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo
10 Statistical Learning Lab, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)
11 URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
12 BioGeCo - Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés
13 MASA - Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts [Skopje, North Macedonia]
14 EcoGozo, Regional Development Directorate - Ministry for Gozo
15 Division of Botany [Zagreb]
16 Bakkevej 6, 5853, Ørbæk, Denmark

Trees play a key role in the structure and function of many ecosystems worldwide. In the Mediterranean Basin, forests cover approximately 22% of the total land area hosting a large number of endemics (46 species). Despite its particularities and vulnerability, the biodiversity of Mediterranean trees is not well known at the taxonomic, spatial, functional, and genetic levels required for conservation applications. The WOODIV database fills this gap by providing reliable occurrences, four functional traits (plant height, seed mass, wood density, and specific leaf area), and sequences from three DNA-regions (rbcL, matK, and trnH-psbA), together with modelled occurrences and a phylogeny for all 210 Euro-Mediterranean tree species. We compiled, homogenized, and verified occurrence data from sparse datasets and collated them on an INSPIRE-compliant 10 × 10 km grid. We also gathered functional trait and genetic data, filling existing gaps where possible. The WOODIV database can benefit macroecological studies in the fields of conservation, biogeography, and community ecology.

Mots clés: Biodiversity; Biogeography; Community ecology; Conservation biology; Forest ecology

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

Anne-Christine Monnet, Kévin Cilleros, Frédéric Médail, Marwan Cheikh Albassatneh, Juan Arroyo, et al.. WOODIV, a database of occurrences, functional traits, and phylogenetic data for all Euro-Mediterranean trees. Scientific Data , 2021, 8 (89), pp.1-11. ⟨10.1038/s41597-021-00873-3⟩. ⟨hal-03180026⟩