10.5061/DRYAD.NP5HQBZSJ
Cai, Qiong
0000-0002-7173-1447
Peking University
Welk, Erik
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ji, Chengjun
Peking University
Fang, Wenjing
Peking University
Sabatini, Francesco Maria
0000-0002-7202-7697
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Zhu, Jianxiao
Peking University
Zhu, Jiangling
Peking University
Tang, Zhiyao
Peking University
Attorre, Fabio
Sapienza University of Rome
Campos, Juan Antonio
University of the Basque Country
Čarni, Andraž
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Chytrý, Milan
Masaryk University
Çoban, Süleyman
Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa
Dengler, Jürgen
University of Bayreuth
Dolezal, Jiri
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Field, Richard
University of Nottingham
Frink, József Pál
National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin
Drăcea"
Gholizadeh, Hamid
University of Mazandaran
Indreica, Adrian
Transylvania University of Brașov
Jandt, Ute
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Karger, Dirk Nikolaus
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Lenoir, Jonathan
University of Picardie Jules Verne
Peet, Robert K.
University of North Carolina System
Pielech, Remigiusz
University of Agriculture
De Sanctis, Michele
Sapienza University of Rome
Schrodt, Franziska
University of Nottingham
Svenning, Jens-Christian
Aarhus University
Tang, Cindy Q.
Yunnan University
Tsiripidis, Ioannis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Willner, Wolfgang
University of Vienna
Yasuhiro, Kubota
University of the Ryukyus
Fang, Jingyun
Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes
Bruelheide, Helge
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Dataset for estimation of the biotic and climatic niche breadths and
geographic range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide
Dryad
dataset
2021
Biogeography
2021-03-29T00:00:00Z
2021-03-29T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14074
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This dataset could be used to test whether the commonly observed positive
range size–niche breadth relationship, as posited by the “niche breadth
hypothesis”, exists for Fagus, one of the most dominant and widespread
broad‐leaved deciduous tree genera in temperate forests of the Northern
Hemisphere. There are many ways to estimate niche breadth. Here, we
estimated biotic and climatic niche breadths per species using plot‐based
co‐occurrence data and climate data, respectively. The range sizes of the
Fagus species were estimated with the raw data from the Chorology Database
Halle. We examined the relationships of these estimates, and found that
neither biotic niche breadth nor climatic niche breadth was correlated
with range size, and the two niche breadths were incongruent as well. Our
findings proved that the “niche breadth hypothesis” did not apply to the
genus Fagus, and thus more attention should be paid to other factors
(e.g., high among‐region variation in available niche space, landscape
heterogeneity and Quaternary history) when explaining the geographic
distribution patterns of Fagus. In addition, the climate data provided
here could be used for climate-related studies on Fagus species worldwide.
The raw plot data for the estimation of biotic niche breadth can be
applied from the sPlot vegetation database (Bruelheide et al., 2019), and
the estimation method was described in Fridley et al. (2007) and Manthey
& Fridley (2009). The climate data used for climatic niche breadth
estimation were extracted from the CHELSA database
(https://chelsa-climate.org/; Karger et al., 2017) based on the plot
coordinates. The raw data for range size estimation were collected from
sPlot as describe above and Chorology Database Halle
(CDH; http://chorologie.biologie.uni‐halle.de//areale/). For
each Fagus species, the range size was calculated as the geographical area
(km2) of the range polygons in an equal-area cartographic projection, and
isolated point clusters were converted to minimum convex polygons.
See README file.