Ordonez-Parra, Carlos A. and Dayrell, Roberta L. C. and Negreiros, Daniel and Andrade, Antonio C. S. and Andrade, Leticia G. and Antonini, Yasmine and Barreto, Leilane C. and Barros, Fernanda de V. and Carvalho, Vanessa da Cruz and Corredor, Blanca Auxiliadora Dugarte and Davide, Antonio Claudio and Duarte, Alexandre A. and Feitosa, Selma Dos Santos and Fernandes, Alessandra F. and Fernandes, G. Wilson and Figueiredo, Maurilio Assis and Fidelis, Alessandra and Garcia, Leticia Couto and Garcia, Queila Souza and Giorni, Victor T. and Gomes, Vanessa G. N. and Goncalves-Magalhaes, Carollayne and Kozovits, Alessandra R. and Lemos-Filho, Jose P. and Le Stradic, Soizig and Machado, Isabel Cristina and Maia, Fabiano Rodrigo and Marques, Andrea R. and Mendes-Rodrigues, Clesnan and Messias, Maria Cristina T. B. and Morellato, Leonor Patricia Cerdeira and de Moraes, Moemy Gomes and Moreira, Bruno and Nunes, Flavia Peres and Oliveira, Ademir K. M. and Oki, Yumi and Rodrigues, Alba R. P. and Pietczak, Carolina and Pina, Jose Carlos and Ramos, Silvio Junio and Ranal, Marli A. and Ribeiro-Oliveira, Joao Paulo and Rodrigues, Flavio H. and Santana, Denise G. and Santos, Fernando M. G. and Senhuk, Ana Paula M. S. and Silveira, Rodrigo A. and Soares, Natalia Costa and Tonetti, Olivia Alvina Oliveira and Vieira, Vinicius Augusto da Silveira and Viana, Leticia Cristiane de Sena and Zanetti, Marcilio and Zirondi, Heloiza L. and Silveira, Fernando A. O. (2023) Rock n' Seeds: A database of seed functional traits and germination experiments from Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation. ECOLOGY, 104 (1): e3852. ISSN 0012-9658, 1939-9170
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Advancing functional ecology depends fundamentally on the availability of data on reproductive traits, including those from tropical plants, which have been historically underrepresented in global trait databases. Although some valuable databases have been created recently, they are mainly restricted to temperate areas and vegetative traits such as leaf and wood traits. Here, we present Rock n' Seeds, a database of seed functional traits and germination experiments from Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation, recognized as outstanding centers of diversity and endemism. Data were compiled through a systematic literature search, resulting in 103 publications from which seed functional traits were extracted. The database includes information on 16 functional traits for 383 taxa from 148 genera, 50 families, and 25 orders. These 16 traits include two dispersal, six production, four morphological, two biophysical, and two germination traits-the major axes of the seed ecological spectrum. The database also provides raw data for 48 germination experiments, for a total of 10,187 records for 281 taxa. Germination experiments in the database assessed the effect of a wide range of abiotic and biotic factors on germination and different dormancy-breaking treatments. Notably, 8255 of these records include daily germination counts. This input will facilitate synthesizing germination data and using this database for a myriad of ecological questions. Given the variety of seed traits and the extensive germination information made available by this database, we expect it to be a valuable resource advancing comparative functional ecology and guiding seed-based restoration and biodiversity conservation in tropical megadiverse ecosystems. There are no copyright restrictions on the data; please cite this paper when using the current data in publications; also the authors would appreciate notification of how the data are used in publications.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | campo de altitude; campo rupestre; canga; dispersal season; dispersal syndrome; inselberg; seed dormancy; seed mass; seed viability |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences 500 Science > 580 Botanical sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Ökologie und Naturschutzbiologie (Prof. Dr. Peter Poschlod) |
| Depositing User: | Petra Gürster |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2023 10:02 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 10:02 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/58835 |
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