SilvaGRIS Global Information System on Forest Genetic Resources: taxonomic standardization of 2,794 species to World Flora Online or the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

SilvaGRIS (https://fgr.apps.fao.org/en; accessed 28th March 2025) is a new global information system on forest genetic resources that makes available the data countries report to FAO for monitoring the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources and for preparing global assessments on these resources. The first dataset was provided by 77 countries, which reported more than 2,800 species for the preparation of The Second Report on the State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources. Here I provide a dataset where these species were standardized to World Flora Online (Borsch et al. 2020; taxonomic backbone version 2023.12) by matching names with those in the Agroforestry Species Switchboard (Kindt et al. 2025; version 4). Species for which no matches could be found were standardized with the WorldFlora package (Kindt 2020), using similar R scripts and the same taxonomic backbone data as those used to standardize species names for the Switchboard. Twelve hybrid species such as Acacia mangium x auriculiformis could not be matched with taxa in the taxonomic backbone databases. Additional fields indicate whether a species can be classified as a tree (2509 species), shrub (156), tree or shrub (6), tree-like palm (57), bamboo (16), rattan (6), or other categories that included rosette trees (16) and tree ferns (3). The category was inferred from the species being flagged as a tree in the Switchboard, from the lifeform obtained from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP; Govaerts et al. 2021, version 11), or from other specified information sources in case there were insufficient details available from the Switchboard or the WCVP. There are also additional fields to indicate that the species was included in the Tree Globally Observed Environmental Ranges database (TreeGOER; Kindt 2023) or in the TreeGOER+ database (Kindt 2024; this databases includes bamboo, hybrid and other woody tree species not included in TreeGOER). References FAO. 2025. SilvaGRIS - Global Information System on Forest Genetic Resources. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. URL https://fgr.apps.fao.org/en accessed 28-MAR-2025 Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W., Dalcin, E., Delmas, M., Demissew, S., Elliott, A., Fritsch, P., Fuchs, A., Geltman, D., Güner, A., Haevermans, T., Knapp, S., le Roux, M.M., Loizeau, P.-A., Miller, C., Miller, J., Miller, J.T., Palese, R., Paton, A., Parnell, J., Pendry, C., Qin, H.-N., Sosa, V., Sosef, M., von Raab-Straube, E., Ranwashe, F., Raz, L., Salimov, R., Smets, E., Thiers, B., Thomas, W., Tulig, M., Ulate, W., Ung, V., Watson, M., Jackson, P.W. and Zamora, N. (2020), World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants. TAXON, 69: 1311-1341. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373 Roeland Kindt, Ilyas Siddique, Ian Dawson, Innocent John, Fabio Pedercini, Jens-Peter B. Lilleso, Lars Graudal. 2025. The Agroforestry Species Switchboard, a global resource to explore information for 107,269 plant species. bioRxiv 2025.03.09.642182; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.09.642182 Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N. et al. The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Sci Data 8, 215 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Kindt, R. 2020. WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data. Applications in Plant Sciences 8(9): e11388. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11388 Kindt, R. (2023). TreeGOER: A database with globally observed environmental ranges for 48,129 tree species. Global Change Biology, 29, 6303–6318. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16914 Kindt, R. (2024). TreeGOER 2024 Expansion: Expansion with additional tree and bamboo species identified via the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (2024.06) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11652972 Funding The development of this dataset was supported by the German International Climate Initiative (IKI) to the regional tree seed programme on The Right Tree for the Right Place for the Right Purpose in Africa, by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia to the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio project in Ethiopia, and by the Bezos Earth Fund to the Quality Tree Seed for Africa in Kenya and Rwanda project.SilvaGRIS（https://fgr.apps.fao.org/en；2025年3月28日访问）是一套全新的全球森林遗传资源信息系统，可获取各国向联合国粮食及农业组织（FAO）提交的监测数据，用于跟踪《森林遗传资源保护、可持续利用与发展全球行动计划》的落实情况，并支撑该类资源的全球评估工作。首批数据集由77个国家提交，相关物种数据覆盖2800余个物种，用于编制《第二次世界森林遗传资源状况报告》。 本次提供的数据集已通过与农林业物种导航系统（Agroforestry Species Switchboard）（Kindt et al. 2025；版本4）中的名称进行匹配，将所有物种按照《世界植物在线（World Flora Online）》（Borsch et al. 2020；分类学骨干数据集版本2023.12）完成标准化处理。无法完成匹配的物种，则通过WorldFlora R包（Kindt 2020）进行标准化，所用R脚本与分类学骨干数据集均与农林业物种导航系统的物种名称标准化流程保持一致。其中包括*Acacia mangium* x *auriculiformis*在内的12个杂交物种，无法在分类学骨干数据库中匹配到对应类群。 新增字段可用于标注物种所属类别，包括乔木（2509种）、灌木（156种）、乔木或灌木（6种）、乔木状棕榈（57种）、竹类（16种）、省藤（6种），以及莲座状乔木（16种）和树蕨（3种）等其他类别。物种类别主要通过以下方式推断：农林业物种导航系统中标记为乔木的物种、从《维管植物世界名录（World Checklist of Vascular Plants, WCVP）》（Govaerts et al. 2021；版本11）获取的生活型数据，或当农林业物种导航系统与WCVP的信息不足时，通过其他指定数据源补充获取。 此外，新增字段还可标注物种是否被纳入《全球观测树木环境范围数据库（Tree Globally Observed Environmental Ranges database, TreeGOER）》（Kindt 2023）或TreeGOER+数据库（Kindt 2024；该数据库包含了TreeGOER未收录的竹类、杂交种及其他木本乔木物种）。 ### 参考文献 1. 联合国粮食及农业组织（FAO）. 2025. 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Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11652972 ### 资助 本数据集的开发得到了德国国际气候倡议（IKI）针对非洲“适地适树适用途”区域林木种子项目、挪威国际气候与森林倡议通过挪威驻埃塞俄比亚大使馆资助的埃塞俄比亚“充足林木种子组合供应”项目，以及贝佐斯地球基金针对肯尼亚和卢旺达的“非洲优质林木种子”项目的支持。