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

Abstract 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...

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Published in:	Gigascience Vol. 10; no. 3
Main Authors:	Opgenoorth, Lars, Dauphin, Benjamin, Benavides, Raquel, Heer, Katrin, Alizoti, Paraskevi, Martínez-Sancho, Elisabet, Ambrosio, Olivier, Avanzi, Camilla, Avramidou, Evangelia, Bagnoli, Francesca, Barbas, Evangelos, Bastias, Cristina C, Bastien, Catherine, Beffa, Giorgia, Bernier, Frédéric, Bodineau, Guillaume, Bouic, Damien, Brodbeck, Sabine, Buchovska, Jurata, Buy, Melanie, Carvalho, Bárbara, Cheval, Nicolas, Climent, José M, Correard, Marianne, Cremer, Eva, Danusevičius, Darius, Del Caño, Fernando, Denou, Jean-Luc, 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, Grivet, Delphine, Gugerli, Felix, Hartleitner, Christoph, Hollenbach, Enja, Hurel, Agathe, Issehut, Bernard, Jean, Florence, Jorge, Veronique, Jouineau, Arnaud, 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, López-Quiroga, David, Meier, Benjamin, Marchon, Jérémy, Mariotte, Nicolas, Mas, Antonio, Matesanz, Silvia, Meischner, Helge, Michotey, Célia, Milesi, Pascal, Nievergelt, Daniel, Ostreng, Geir, Pakull, Birte, Perry, Annika, Piotti, Andrea, Plomion, Christophe, Poinot, Nicolas, Pringarbe, Mehdi, Puzos, Luc, Pyhäjärvi, Tanja, Raffin, Annie, Ramírez-Valiente, José A, Rellstab, Christian, Richter, Sebastian, Robledo-Arnuncio, Juan J, San Segundo, Sergio, Savolainen, Outi, Schueler, Silvio, Semerikov, Vladimir, Sønstebø, Jørn Henrik, Spanu, Ilaria, Thevenet, Jean, Tollefsrud, Mari Mette, Turion, Norbert, Vendramin, Giovanni Giuseppe, Villar, Marc, von Arx, Georg, Fady, Bruno, Myking, Tor, Valladares, Fernando, Aravanopoulos, Filippos A, Cavers, Stephen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Oxford University Press 18-03-2021 Oxford Univ Press
Subjects:	Abies alba Bark bark thickness Beech Betula pendula Biodiversity and Ecology branch angle crown size Data collection Data Note DBH Diameters Drought Ecologists Ecology Environment models Environmental Sciences Evolution Fagus sylvatica Forest management Forests forking index fruit number Height In situ measurement Interpolation Phenotyping Picea abies Pine Pinus cembra Pinus halepensis Pinus nigra Pinus pinaster Pinus sylvestris Poplar Populus nigra Quercus petraea regeneration Soil depth Species stem straightness Taxus baccata Trees soil depth forking index bark thickness branch angle regeneration DBH crown size stem straightness height fruit number
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Summary:	Abstract 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.
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ISSN:	2047-217X 2047-217X
DOI:	10.1093/gigascience/giab010