HERBase: A collection of understorey herb vegetation plots from Amazonia

IF 0.7 4区环境科学与生态学 Q4 ECOLOGY

Acta Amazonica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1590/1809-4392202203150

T. André, G. Moulatlet, T. Almeida, Paula Alverga, C. R. Boelter, D. Drucker, Julia Gomes da Silva, R. Linares‐Palomino, M. Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Â. G. Manzatto, H. A. Mews, Iracema Elizabeth de Siuza Moll, A. Mortati, Eliana Paixão, Estela Quintero-Vallejo, Tinde van Andel, M. Silveira, D. Storck-Tonon, H. Tuomisto, G. Zuquim, F. Costa

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Understorey herbs form a diverse and understudied plant assemblage in tropical forests. Although several studies and research teams have long been dedicated to the study of this conspicuous vegetation component in Amazonia, no effort to unify the data has been undertaken to date. In contrast to trees and other life forms for which major data compilations already exist, a unified database dedicated to herbs is still lacking. Part of the problem is in defining what is a herb and how to effectively sample herb assemblages. In this article, we describe the database HERBase, an exhaustive compilation of published and unpublished data on herb inventories in Amazonia. We also describe the structure, functioning, and guidelines for data curation and integration in HERBase. We were able to compile information from 1381 plots from all six Amazonian geographic regions. Based on this dataset, we describe and discuss sampling and knowledge gaps, priority areas for new collections, and recommend sampling protocols to facilitate data integration in the future. This novel database provides a unique biodiversity data repository on understorey herbs that will enable new studies on community ecology and biogeography.

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HERBase：亚马逊地区的下层草本植物群落

在热带森林中，林下草本植物构成了一个多样性和研究不足的植物组合。虽然有几个研究和研究小组长期致力于研究亚马逊地区这种显著的植被成分，但迄今为止还没有努力统一这些数据。与树木和其他生命形式的主要数据汇编已经存在相比，一个专门用于草药的统一数据库仍然缺乏。部分问题在于定义什么是草药以及如何有效地取样草药组合。在本文中，我们描述了数据库HERBase，这是一个关于亚马逊地区草药清单的已发表和未发表数据的详尽汇编。我们还描述了HERBase中数据管理和集成的结构、功能和指导方针。我们能够从亚马逊所有六个地理区域的1381个地块中收集信息。基于此数据集，我们描述和讨论了采样和知识差距，新集合的优先领域，并推荐了采样协议，以促进未来的数据集成。该数据库提供了一个独特的林下草本生物多样性数据库，为群落生态学和生物地理学的研究提供了新的途径。

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Acta Amazonica PLANT SCIENCESECOLOGYZOO-ECOLOGY

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1.70

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22 weeks

期刊介绍： Acta Amzonica is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access, free-of-charge scientific journal for research in and about the Amazon region, published since 1971 by the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, in Brazil. The journal publishes quarterly issues containing articles and short communications in English across a broad range of disciplines, including Agronomy and Forestry, Animal Sciences and Fisheries, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacology, Environmental Sciences, Food Sciences, Geosciences, Health Sciences, Human and Social Sciences, and Materials Technology.