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BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

Falster, Daniel S., Duursma, Remko A., Ishihara, Masae I., Barneche, Diego R., FitzJohn, Richard G., Varhammar, Angelica, Aiba, Masahiro, Ando, Makoto, Anten, Niels, Aspinwall, Michael J., Baltzer, Jennifer L., Baraloto, Christopher, Battaglia, Michael, Battles, John J., Bond-Lamberty, Ben, van Breugel, Michiel, Camac, James, Claveau, Yves, Coll, Lluis, Hutley, Lindsay B. and et al. (2015). BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants. Ecology,96(5):1445-1445.

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Title BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants
Author Falster, Daniel S.
Duursma, Remko A.
Ishihara, Masae I.
Barneche, Diego R.
FitzJohn, Richard G.
Varhammar, Angelica
Aiba, Masahiro
Ando, Makoto
Anten, Niels
Aspinwall, Michael J.
Baltzer, Jennifer L.
Baraloto, Christopher
Battaglia, Michael
Battles, John J.
Bond-Lamberty, Ben
van Breugel, Michiel
Camac, James
Claveau, Yves
Coll, Lluis
Hutley, Lindsay B.
et al.
Journal Name Ecology
Publication Date 2015
Volume Number 96
Issue Number 5
ISSN 0012-9658   (check CDU catalogue  open catalogue search in new window)
Start Page 1445
End Page 1445
Total Pages 1
Place of Publication United States of America
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
HERDC Category C1 - Journal Article (DIISR)
Abstract Understanding how plants are constructed—i.e., how key size dimensions and the amount of mass invested in different tissues varies among individuals—is essential for modeling plant growth, carbon stocks, and energy fluxes in the terrestrial biosphere. Allocation patterns can differ through ontogeny, but also among coexisting species and among species adapted to different environments. While a variety of models dealing with biomass allocation exist, we lack a synthetic understanding of the underlying processes. This is partly due to the lack of suitable data sets for validating and parameterizing models. To that end, we present the Biomass And Allometry Database (BAAD) for woody plants. The BAAD contains 259 634 measurements collected in 176 different studies, from 21 084 individuals across 678 species. Most of these data come from existing publications. However, raw data were rarely made public at the time of publication. Thus, the BAAD contains data from different studies, transformed into standard units and variable names. The transformations were achieved using a common workflow for all raw data files. Other features that distinguish the BAAD are: (i) measurements were for individual plants rather than stand averages; (ii) individuals spanning a range of sizes were measured; (iii) plants from 0.01–100 m in height were included; and (iv) biomass was estimated directly, i.e., not indirectly via allometric equations (except in very large trees where biomass was estimated from detailed sub-sampling). We included both wild and artificially grown plants. The data set contains the following size metrics: total leaf area; area of stem cross-section including sapwood, heartwood, and bark; height of plant and crown base, crown area, and surface area; and the dry mass of leaf, stem, branches, sapwood, heartwood, bark, coarse roots, and fine root tissues. We also report other properties of individuals (age, leaf size, leaf mass per area, wood density, nitrogen content of leaves and wood), as well as information about the growing environment (location, light, experimental treatment, vegetation type) where available. It is our hope that making these data available will improve our ability to understand plant growth, ecosystem dynamics, and carbon cycling in the world's vegetation.
Keywords Allometric equations
Biomass allocation
Biomass partitioning
Global carbon cycle
Plant allometry
Plant traits
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1889.1   (check subscription with CDU E-Gateway service for CDU Staff and Students  check subscription with CDU E-Gateway in new window)


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