DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12199628.v3
title: ClimPlant: realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys (v1.2)

description: 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.
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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. 
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More info in Vangansbeke et al., 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(6), 1183–1190. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13303
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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).
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<strong>ClimPlant: realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys</strong> 
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Pieter Vangansbeke <sup>a</sup>, František Máliš <sup>b</sup>, Radim Hédl <sup>c</sup>, Markéta Chudomelová <sup>c</sup>, Ondřej Vild <sup>c</sup>, Monika Wulf <sup>d</sup>, Ute Jahn <sup>d</sup>, Erik Welk <sup>e</sup>, Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez <sup>f,g</sup> Alistair G. Auffret <sup>h</sup>, Inger Auestad <sup>i</sup>, Sofía Basto <sup>j</sup>, Ulf Grandin <sup>k</sup>, Hans Jacquemyn <sup>l</sup>, Anna Jakobsson <sup>m</sup>, Rein Kalamees <sup>n</sup>, Marcus A. Koch <sup>o</sup>, Rob Marrs <sup>p</sup>, Bryndis Marteinsdottir <sup>q</sup>, Jan Plue <sup>r</sup>, Markus Wagner <sup>s</sup> & Pieter De Frenne <sup>a</sup>
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<sup><em>a</em></sup><em> Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.</em>
<sup><em>b</em></sup><em> Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia</em>
<sup><em>c</em></sup><em> Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic.</em>
<sup><em>d</em></sup><em> Research Area 2, Leibniz - Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, D-15374 Müncheberg, Germany</em>
<sup><em>e</em></sup><em> Institute for Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Große Steinstrasse 79/80, D-06108 Halle, Germany</em>
<sup><em>f</em></sup><em> Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom.</em>
<sup><em>g</em></sup><em> Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla. Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla (Spain).</em> 
<sup><em>h</em></sup><em> Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75 007 Uppsala, Sweden</em>
<sup><em>i</em></sup><em> Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 133, N-6851 Sogndal, Norway</em>
<sup><em>j</em></sup><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>
<sup><em>k</em></sup><em> Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Box 7050, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden</em>
<sup><em>l</em></sup><em> Plant Conservation and Population Biology, Biology Department, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium</em>
<sup><em>m</em></sup><em> Division of Educational Science and Languages, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden</em>
<sup><em>n</em></sup><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>
<sup><em>o</em></sup><em> Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, D epartment of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany</em>
<sup><em>p</em></sup><em> School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK</em>
<sup><em>q</em></sup><em> The Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, Gunnarsholt, 851 Hella, Iceland</em>
<sup><em>r</em></sup><em> Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural 52 Sciences, 75 007 Uppsala, Sweden</em>
<sup><em>s</em></sup><em> UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Benson Lane, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB UK</em>
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<strong>Corresponding author:</strong>
Pieter Vangansbeke
pieter.vangansbeke@ugent.be<br>