RecruitNet : A global database of plant recruitment networks

作者：Miguel Verdú, José Luis Hernando Garrido, Julio M. Alcántara, Alicia Montesinos‐Navarro, Salomón Aguilar, Marcelo A. Aizen, Ali A. Al‐Namazi, Mohamed Alifriqui, David Allen, Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira, Cristina Armas, Jesús M. Bastida, Tono Bellido, Giuliano Bonanomi, Gustavo B. Paterno, Herbert Briceño, Ricardo A. C. de Oliveira, Josefina G. Campoy, Ghassen Chaieb, Chengjin Chu, Sarah E. Collins, Richard Condit, Elena Constantinou, Cihan Ünal Değirmenci, Léo Delalandre, Milén Duarte, Michel Faife, Fatih Fazlioglu, Edwino S. Fernando, Joel Flores, Hilda Flores‐Olvera, Ecaterina Fodor, Gislene Ganade, Marı́a B. Garcı́a, P. García‐Fayos, Sabrina S. Gavini, Marta Goberna, Lorena Gómez‐Aparicio, Enrique González‐Pendás, Ana González‐Robles, Stephen P. Hubbell, Kahraman İpekdal, María J. Jorquera, Zaal Kikvidze, Pınar Kütküt, Alicia Ledo, Sandra Lendínez, Buhang Li, Hanlun Liu, Francisco Lloret, Ramiro Pablo López, Álvaro López‐García, Christopher J. Lortie, Gianalberto Losapio, James A. Lutz, Arántzazu L. Luzuriaga, Frantíšek Máliš, Esteban Manrique, Antonio J. Manzaneda, Vinícius Marcilio‐Silva, Richard Michalet, Rafael Molina‐Venegas, José A. Navarro‐Cano, Vojtêch Novotný, Jens M. Olesen, Juan Pablo Ortíz-Brunel, María Pajares‐Murgó, Nikolas Parissis, Geoffrey G. Parker, Antonio J. Perea, Vidal Pérez‐Hernández, María Ángeles Pérez‐Navarro, Nuria Pistón, Elisa Pizarro-Carbonell, Iván Prieto, Jorge Prieto‐Rubio, Francisco I. Pugnaire, Nelson Ramírez, Rubén Retuerto, Pedro J. Rey, Daniel A. Rodriguez Ginart, Mariana Rodríguez‐Sánchez, Ricardo Sánchez‐Martín, Christian Schöb, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu, Giorgi Tedoradze, Amanda Tercero‐Araque, Katja Tielbörger, Blaise Touzard, İrem Tüfekcioğlu, Sevda Türkiş, Francisco M. Usero, Nurbahar Usta Baykal, Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet, Alexia Vargas-Colin, Ioannis Ν. Vogiatzakis, Regino Zamora · 发表于：Ecology · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1002/ecy.3923 · 被引用次数：12 · 研究领域：Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence

Plant recruitment interactions (i.e., what recruits under what) shape the composition, diversity, and structure of plant communities. Despite the huge body of knowledge on the mechanisms underlying recruitment interactions among species, we still know little about the structure of the recruitment networks emerging in ecological communities. Modeling and analyzing the community-level structure of plant recruitment interactions as a complex network can provide relevant information on ecological and evolutionary processes acting both at the species and ecosystem levels. We report a data set containing 143 plant recruitment networks in 23 countries across five continents, including temperate and tropical ecosystems. Each network identifies the species under which another species recruits. All networks report the number of recruits (i.e., individuals) per species. The data set includes >850,000 recruiting individuals involved in 118,411 paired interactions among 3318 vascular plant species across the globe. The cover of canopy species and open ground is also provided. Three sampling protocols were used: (1) The Recruitment Network (RN) protocol (106 networks) focuses on interactions among established plants ("canopy species") and plants in their early stages of recruitment ("recruit species"). A series of plots was delimited within a locality, and all the individuals recruiting and their canopy species were identified; (2) The paired Canopy-Open (pCO) protocol (26 networks) consis...