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Data from TropiRoot 1.0 database: tropical root characteristics across environments

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.15485/2507279· OSTI ID:2507279
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  1. University of Minnesota - St. Paul
  2. Colorado State University
  3. Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
  4. University of Tennessee
  5. Science and Conservation Division, Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis, MO, USA
  6. Yale University
  7. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  8. The Nature Conservancy
  9. Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria (second affiliaton: Environment and Climate Hub, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria)
  10. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  11. McGill University
  12. Clemson University
  13. Technical University of Munich
  14. University of Hamburg
  15. Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environment, International Center of Tropical Botany, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 USA.
  16. CNRS, Sorbonne Université, INRAE, Institut of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IEES), Paris, France
  17. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, University of Leeds, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  18. Nanyang Technological University
  19. University of Michigan
  20. CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
  21. University of Göttingen
  22. Michigan State University
  23. The Morton Arboretum
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TropiRoot 1.0 is a new tropical root database with root characteristics across environment gradients. It has data extracted from 104 new sources, resulting in more than 8000 rows of data (either species or community data). Most of the data in TropiRoot 1.0 includes root characteristics such as root biomass, morphology, root dynamics, mass fraction, architecture, anatomy, physiology and root chemistry. This initiative represents an approximately 30% increase in the currently available data for tropical roots in the Fine Root Ecology Database (FRED). TropiRoot 1.0, contains root characteristics from 25 different countries where seven are located in Asia, six in South America, five in Central America and the Caribbean, four in Africa, two in North America, and 1 in Oceania. Due to the volume of data, when ancillary data was available, including soil data, these data was either extracted and included in the database or their availability was recorded in an additional column. Multiple contributors checked the entries for outliers during the collation process to ensure data quality. For text-based observations, we examined all cells to ensure that their content relates to their specific categories. For numerical observations, we ordered each numerical value from least to greatest and plotted the values, checking apparent outliers against the data in their respective sources and correcting or removing incorrect or impossible values. Some data (soil and aboveground) have different columns for the same variable presented in different units, including originally published units, but root characteristics data had units converted to match the ones reported in FRED. By filling a gap from global databases, TropiRoot 1.0 expands our knowledge of otherwise so far underrepresented regions, and our ability to assess global trends. This advancement can be used to improve tropical forest representation in vegetation models.
Research Organization:
Synthesis of existing tropical root data: How do natural, episodic disturbances alter tropical forest carbon cycles via changes in belowground dynamics?
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
2507279
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Database
ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format
FRED
Functional Traits
Plants
Root Characteristics
Root Traits
TropiRoot
Tropical
related identifiers
root anatomy
root architecture
root biomass
root chemistry
root dynamics
root microbial associations
root morphology
root physiology
root system