The GenTree Platform: growth traits and tree-level environmental data in 12 European forest tree species

Opgenoorth, Lars; Dauphin, Benjamin; Benavides, Raquel; Heer, Katrin; Alizoti, Paraskevi; Martínez-Sancho, Elisabet; Alía, Ricardo; Ambrosio, Olivier; Audrey, Albet; Auñón, Francisco; Avanzi, Camilla; Avramidou, Evangelia; Bagnoli, Francesca; Barbas, Evangelos; Bastias, Cristina C.; Bastien, Catherine; Ballesteros, Eduardo; Beffa, Giorgia; Bernier, Frédéric; Bignalet, Henri; Bodineau, Guillaume; Bouic, Damien; Brodbeck, Sabine; Brunetto, William; Buchovska, Jurata; Buy, Melanie; Cabanillas-Saldaña, Ana M.; Carvalho, Bárbara; Cheval, Nicolas; Climent, José M.; Correard, Marianne; Cremer, Eva; Danusevičius, Darius; Del Caño, Fernando; Denou, Jean-Luc; di Gerardi, Nicolas; Dokhelar, Bernard; Ducousso, Alexis; Eskild Nilsen, Anne; Farsakoglou, Anna-Maria; Fonti, Patrick; Ganopoulos, Ioannis; García del Barrio, José M.; Gilg, Olivier; González-Martínez, Santiago C.; Graf, René; Gray, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6785-0590; Grivet, Delphine; Gugerli, Felix; Hartleitner, Christoph; Hollenbach, Enja; Hurel, Agathe; Issehut, Bernard; Jean, Florence; Jorge, Veronique; Jouineau, Arnaud; Kappner, Jan-Philipp; Kärkkäinen, Katri; Kesälahti, Robert; Knutzen, Florian; Kujala, Sonja T.; Kumpula, Timo A.; Labriola, Mariaceleste; Lalanne, Celine; Lambertz, Johannes; Lascoux, Martin; Lejeune, Vincent; Le-Provost, Gregoire; Levillain, Joseph; Liesebach, Mirko; López-Quiroga, David; Meier, Benjamin; Malliarou, Ermioni; Marchon, Jérémy; Mariotte, Nicolas; Mas, Antonio; Matesanz, Silvia; Meischner, Helge; Michotey, Célia; Milesi, Pascal; Morganti, Sandro; Nievergelt, Daniel; Notivol, Eduardo; Ostreng, Geir; Pakull, Birte; Perry, Annika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7889-7597; Piotti, Andrea; Plomion, Christophe; Poinot, Nicolas; Pringarbe, Mehdi; Puzos, Luc; Pyhäjärvi, Tanja; Raffin, Annie; Ramírez-Valiente, José A.; Rellstab, Christian; Remi, Dourthe; Richter, Sebastian; Robledo-Arnuncio, Juan J.; San Segundo, Sergio; Savolainen, Outi; Schueler, Silvio; Schneck, Volker; Scotti, Ivan; Semerikov, Vladimir; Slámová, Lenka; Sønstebø, Jørn Henrik; Spanu, Ilaria; Thevenet, Jean; Tollefsrud, Mari Mette; Turion, Norbert; Vendramin, Giovanni Giuseppe; Villar, Marc; von Arx, Georg; Westin, Johan; Fady, Bruno; Myking, Tor; Valladares, Fernando; Aravanopoulos, Filippos A.; Cavers, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2139-9236. 2021 The GenTree Platform: growth traits and tree-level environmental data in 12 European forest tree species. GigaScience, 10 (3), giab010. 13, pp. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab010

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Abstract/Summary

Background: Progress in the field of evolutionary forest ecology has been hampered by the huge challenge of phenotyping trees across their ranges in their natural environments, and the limitation in high-resolution environmental information. Findings: The GenTree Platform contains phenotypic and environmental data from 4,959 trees from 12 ecologically and economically important European forest tree species: Abies alba Mill. (silver fir), Betula pendula Roth. (silver birch), Fagus sylvatica L. (European beech), Picea abies (L.) H. Karst (Norway spruce), Pinus cembra L. (Swiss stone pine), Pinus halepensis Mill. (Aleppo pine), Pinus nigra Arnold (European black pine), Pinus pinaster Aiton (maritime pine), Pinus sylvestris L. (Scots pine), Populus nigra L. (European black poplar), Taxus baccata L. (English yew), and Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. (sessile oak). Phenotypic (height, diameter at breast height, crown size, bark thickness, biomass, straightness, forking, branch angle, fructification), regeneration, environmental in situ measurements (soil depth, vegetation cover, competition indices), and environmental modeling data extracted by using bilinear interpolation accounting for surrounding conditions of each tree (precipitation, temperature, insolation, drought indices) were obtained from trees in 194 sites covering the species’ geographic ranges and reflecting local environmental gradients. Conclusion: The GenTree Platform is a new resource for investigating ecological and evolutionary processes in forest trees. The coherent phenotyping and environmental characterization across 12 species in their European ranges allow for a wide range of analyses from forest ecologists, conservationists, and macro-ecologists. Also, the data here presented can be linked to the GenTree Dendroecological collection, the GenTree Leaf Trait collection, and the GenTree Genomic collection presented elsewhere, which together build the largest evolutionary forest ecology data collection available.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab010
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2047-217X
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	regeneration, DBH, height, crown size, bark thickness, fruit number, stem straightness, branch angle, forking index, soil depth
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	06 Apr 2021 14:52 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530007

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab010

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

2047-217X

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.

Additional Keywords:

regeneration, DBH, height, crown size, bark thickness, fruit number, stem straightness, branch angle, forking index, soil depth