ClimPlant: realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys (v1.2)

The updated ClimPlant database (v.1.2) contains information on the distribution of monthly, growing-season, and annual mean, minimum and maximum temperature and total precipitation within the distribution range of 1168 European plants, mostly associated with temperate forests. <br> Data in 56 csv-files with 1000 values for monthly, growing season and annual observations of mean, minimum, maximum temperature and precipitation in the distribution range for every species. One summary csv-file with summary statistics (mean, median, 5th and 95th percentile) for every species, of each climatic variable, together with seven key geographical descriptors: area of the distribution range, latitude and longitude of the centroid, and northern, eastern, western and southern range limit within the study area. <br> More info in Vangansbeke et al., 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(6), 1183–1190. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13303 <br> The database is freely available, but please cite both the database (https://figshare.com/s/1587e048803042bd4c07) and the methodological paper (https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13303). <br> <strong>ClimPlant: realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys</strong> <br> Pieter Vangansbeke ^a, František Máliš ^b, Radim Hédl ^c, Markéta Chudomelová ^c, Ondřej Vild ^c, Monika Wulf ^d, Ute Jahn ^d, Erik Welk ^e, Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez ^f,g Alistair G. Auffret ^h, Inger Auestad ⁱ, Sofía Basto ^j, Ulf Grandin ^k, Hans Jacquemyn ^l, Anna Jakobsson ^m, Rein Kalamees ⁿ, Marcus A. Koch ^o, Rob Marrs ^p, Bryndis Marteinsdottir ^q, Jan Plue ^r, Markus Wagner ^s &amp; Pieter De Frenne ^a <br> ^<em>a</em><em> Forest &amp; Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.</em> ^<em>b</em><em> Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia</em> ^<em>c</em><em> Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic.</em> ^<em>d</em><em> Research Area 2, Leibniz - Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, D-15374 Müncheberg, Germany</em> ^<em>e</em><em> Institute for Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Große Steinstrasse 79/80, D-06108 Halle, Germany</em> ^<em>f</em><em> Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom.</em> ^<em>g</em><em> Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla. Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla (Spain).</em> ^<em>h</em><em> Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75 007 Uppsala, Sweden</em> ^<em>i</em><em> Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 133, N-6851 Sogndal, Norway</em> ^<em>j</em><em> Unidad de Ecología y Sistemática, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7 No. 43-82 Ed. Jesús Emilio Ramírez (53), Bogotá, Colombia.</em> ^<em>k</em><em> Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Box 7050, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden</em> ^<em>l</em><em> Plant Conservation and Population Biology, Biology Department, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium</em> ^<em>m</em><em> Division of Educational Science and Languages, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden</em> ^<em>n</em><em> Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of 27 Tartu, Juhan Liivi 2, 50409 Tartu, Estonia and Tallinn Botanic Garden, Kloostrimetsa 52, 11913 Tallinn, Estonia</em> ^<em>o</em><em> Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, D epartment of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany</em> ^<em>p</em><em> School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK</em> ^<em>q</em><em> The Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, Gunnarsholt, 851 Hella, Iceland</em> ^<em>r</em><em> Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural 52 Sciences, 75 007 Uppsala, Sweden</em> ^<em>s</em><em> UK Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology, Benson Lane, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB UK</em> <br> <strong>Corresponding author:</strong> Pieter Vangansbeke [e-mail]<br>