Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

作者：Tommaso Jucker, Fabian Jörg Fischer, Jérôme Chave, David A. Coomes, John P. Caspersen, Arshad Ali, Grâce Jopaul Loubota Panzou, Ted R. Feldpausch, Daniel S. Falster, V. А. Usoltsev, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Luciana F. Alves, Mohammad Aminpour, Ilondea B. Angoboy, Niels P. R. Anten, Cécile Antin, Yousef Askari, Rodrigo Muñoz, Narayanan Ayyappan, Patricia Balvanera, Lindsay F. Banin, Nicolas Barbier, John J. Battles, Hans Beeckman, Yannick E. Bocko, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Frans Bongers, Samuel Bowers, Thomas Brade, Michiel van Breugel, Arthur Chantrain, Rajeev Chaudhary, Jingyu Dai, Michele Dalponte, Kangbéni Dimobe, Jean‐Christophe Domec, Jean‐Louis Doucet, Remko A. Duursma, Moisés Enríquez, Karin Y. van Ewijk, William Farfán-Ríos, Adeline Fayolle, Éric Forni, David I. Forrester, Hammad Gilani, John L. Godlee, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, Matthias Haeni, Jefferson S. Hall, Jiekun He, Andreas Hemp, José Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni, Steven I. Higgins, Robert J. Holdaway, Kiramat Hussain, Lindsay B. Hutley, Tomoaki Ichie, Y. Iida, Hai‐sheng Jiang, Puspa Raj Joshi, S H Kaboli, Maryam Kazempour Larsary, Tanaka Kenzo, Brian D. Kloeppel, Takashi Kohyama, Suwash Kunwar, Shem Kuyah, Jakub Kvasnica, Siliang Lin, Emily R. Lines, Hongyan Liu, Craig G. Lorimer, Jean‐Joël Loumeto, Yadvinder Malhi, Peter Marshall, Eskil Mattsson, Radim Matula, Jorge A. Meave, Sylvanus Mensah, Xiangcheng Mi, Stéphane Momo Takoudjou, Glenn R. Moncrieff, Francisco Mora, S. P. Nissanka, Kevin L. O’Hara, Steven Pearce, Raphaël Pélissier, Pablo L. Peri, Pierre Ploton, Lourens Poorter, Mohsen Javanmiri Pour, Hassan Pourbabaei, Juan Manuel Dupuy, Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Casey M. Ryan, Anvar Sanaei, Jennifer Sanger, Michael Schlund, Giacomo Sellan, Alexander Shenkin, Bonaventure Sonké, Frank J. Sterck, Martin Svátek, Kentaro Takagi, Anna T. Trugman, Farman Ullah, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, Ahmad Valipour, Mark C. Vanderwel, Alejandra G. Vovides, Weiwei Wang, Li‐Qiu Wang, Christian Wirth, Murray Woods, Wenhua Xiang, Fabiano de Aquino Ximenes, Yaozhan Xu, Toshihiro Yamada, Miguel Á. Zavala · 发表于：Global Change Biology · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1111/gcb.16302 · 被引用次数：118 · 研究领域：Forest ecology and management、Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

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 programmes. 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 5163 species distributed across 1453 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 environm...