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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2601-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2601-2018
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Research article |
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| 04 May 2018
Gap-filling a spatially explicit plant trait database: comparing imputation methods and different levels of environmental information
CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Oliver Sus
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat Allee 1, 64295 Darmstad, Germany
Llorenç Badiella
Servei d'Estadística Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Barcelona, Spain
Maurizio Mencuccini
CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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Short summary
Plant traits are characteristics of plants that are easy to measure and that show how plants function. Values of these traits for many species and locations worldwide are available in trait databases, but these are often incomplete. Here we use different statistical methods to fill the gaps in a trait database of Mediterranean and temperate tree species. Combining traits and environmental information provides more plausible gap-filled databases and preserves the observed trait variability.
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