Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database
2022
Jucker, Tommaso | Fischer, Fabian Jörg | Chave, Jérôme | Coomes, David | Caspersen, John | Ali, Arshad | Loubota Panzou, Grace Jopaul | Feldpausch, Ted | Falster, Daniel | Usoltsev, Vladimir | Adu-Bredu, Stephen | Alves, Luciana | Aminpour, Mohammad | Angoboy, Ilondea | Anten, Niels | Antin, Cécile | Askari, Yousef | Muñoz, Rodrigo | Balvanera, Patricia | Banin, Lindsay | Barbier, Nicolas | Battles, John | Beeckman, Hans | Bocko, Yannick | Bond-Lamberty, Ben | Bongers, Frans | Bowers, Samuel | Brade, Thomas | van Breugel, Michiel | Chantrain, Arthur | Chaudhary, Rajeev | Dai, Jingyu | Dalponte, Michele | Dimobe, Kangbéni | Domec, Jean‐christophe | Doucet, Jean‐louis | Duursma, Remko | Enríquez, Moisés | van Ewijk, Karin | Farfán-Rios, William | Fayolle, Adeline | Forni, Eric | Forrester, David | Gilani, Hammad | Godlee, John | Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie | Haeni, Matthias | Hall, Jefferson | He, Jie‐kun | Hemp, Andreas | Hernández-Stefanoni, José | Higgins, Steven | Holdaway, Robert | Hussain, Kiramat | Hutley, Lindsay | Ichie, Tomoaki | Iida, Yoshiko | Jiang, Hai‐sheng | Joshi, Puspa Raj | Kaboli, Hasan | Larsary, Maryam Kazempour | Kenzo, Tanaka | Kloeppel, Brian | Kohyama, Takashi | Kunwar, Suwash | Kuyah, Shem | Kvasnica, Jakub | Lin, Siliang | Lines, Emily | Liu, Hongyan | Lorimer, Craig | Loumeto, Jean‐joël | Malhi, Yadvinder | Marshall, Peter | Mattsson, Eskil | Matula, Radim | Meave, Jorge | Mensah, Sylvanus | Mi, Xiangcheng | Momo Takoudjou, Stephane | Moncrieff, Glenn | Mora, Francisco | Nissanka, Sarath | O'Hara, Kevin | Pearce, Steven | Pélissier63, Raphaël | Peri, Pablo | Ploton, Pierre | Poorter, Lourens | Pour, Mohsen Javanmiri | Pourbabaei, Hassan | Dupuy-Rada, Juan Manuel | Trugman, Anna | Sellan, Giacomo | Takagi, Kentaro | Ribeiro, Sabina | Ryan, Casey | Sanaei, Anvar | Sanger, Jennifer | Schlund, Michael | Shenkin, Alexander | Sonké, Bonaventure | Sterck, Frank | Wang, Li‐qiu | Svátek, Martin | Ullah, Farman | Vadeboncoeur, Matthew | Valipour, Ahmad | Vanderwel, Mark | Vovides, Alejandra | Wang, Weiwei | Wirth, Christian | Woods, Murray | Xiang, Wenhua | Ximenes, Fabiano de Aquino | Xu, Yaozhan | Yamada, Toshihiro | Zavala, Miguel | Ayyappan, Narayanan | University of Bristol [Bristol] | Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université de Montpellier (UM) | Forêts et Sociétés (UPR Forêts et Sociétés) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Université de Yaoundé I (UY1) | Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP) ; Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Natural Environment Research Council. Grant Numbers: NE/S01537X/1, NE/N011570/1 | Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. Grant Number: INTER-TRANSFER LTT19018 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Grant Numbers: IN217620, IN218416 | ANR-10-LABX-0041,TULIP,Towards a Unified theory of biotic Interactions: the roLe of environmental(2010) | ANR-10-LABX-0025,CEBA,CEnter of the study of Biodiversity in Amazonia(2010)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Data capturing multiple axes of tree size and shape, such as a tree’s stem diameter, height and crown size, underpin a wide range of ecological research – from developing and testing theory on forest structure and dynamics, to estimating forest carbon stocks and their uncertainties, and integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programs. However, these data can be surprisingly hard to come by, particularly for certain regions of the world and for specific taxonomic groups, posing a real barrier to progress in these fields. To overcome this challenge, we developed the Tallo database, a collection of 498,838 georeferenced and taxonomically standardized records of individual trees for which stem diameter, height and/or crown radius have been measured. These data were collected at 61,856 globally distributed sites, spanning all major forested and non-forested biomes. The majority of trees in the database are identified to species (88%), and collectively Tallo includes data for 5,163 species distributed across 1,453 genera and 187 plant families. The database is publicly archived under a CC-BY 4.0 licence and can be access from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6637599. To demonstrate its value, here we present three case studies that highlight how the Tallo database can be used to address a range of theoretical and applied questions in ecology – from testing the predictions of metabolic scaling theory, to exploring the limits of tree allometric plasticity along environmental gradients and modelling global variation in maximum attainable tree height. In doing so, we provide a key resource for field ecologists, remote sensing researchers and the modelling community working together to better understand the role that trees play in regulating the terrestrial carbon cycle.
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