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Worldwide ‘Open Access’ Tree Functional Attributes and Ecological Database
There are several global databases of plant functional attributes and traits, but they have restricted access. ICRAF’s Tree functional attributes and ecological databases are open to all users, but cover only part of the user needs. The common answer to the trade off between ‘public good’ data access and the proprietary nature of data owned by partners, is to provide ‘meta data’ or allow access to summarized forms of the primary dataset. New efforts are under way to broaden the information content and bring the platform and structure up to date with current technical opportunities. Three types of basic data are at the basis of it 1) properties and attributes of trees, usually at species level, that include geographic distribution, ecological requirements, growth rates, utility and value chain information, 2) geographic locations where trees are known to occur, 3) plot-level inventory data of co-occurrence of trees in (modified) forest, agroforest or simple agroforestry settings. By linking databases of these three types, a range of user questions can be answered about ‘right tree in right place for clear reason’. We have started to bring together all data available in ICRAF-Indonesia and its close partners onto a platform that we hope can attract wider use; the platform itself, within the constraints of the overall architecture, is open to further additions by a user community. We seek inputs on the selection and definition of tree functional attributes that should be captured for the database, and the way these can be linked to standardized analysis of plot-level or occurrence data and/or linked to models of tree growth and performance under current or future climatic conditions.
Database Modules DiagramSpecies ID Tree Inventory Plot ID Species Properties Ecological Range Growth Parameters Product and Market Species Use, Utility and Ethnobotany Growth and Yield Models Watershed Function Soil and Land Form Mesoclimate Plot Map Coordinates Carbon Stock Tree Suitability World Map Climatic Zonation Land Cover and Conectivity Floristic and Eco-Regions Functional diversity indicator, Ecolabeling criteria Taxonomy, Synonyms Common Names Botanical Description Digital Herbarium Pollination and Dispersal Wood Density Allometric Relations Leaf Morphotype Species Identification Tools Species ID Species ID database is a compilation of species taxon with links to other related data within this framework Tree Inventory Tree inventory is a collection of individual tree samples with information including species, size, condition, management, ecological characteristic etc. Plot ID Plot ID database is a collection of plot ID with geo-informatic coordinates and is linked with any information related to spatial explicite data Species Properties The species properties links all properties related to Species ID including Wood Density, Botanical description, Pollination etc Ecological Range Ecological Range describe the optimum species specific ecological range of condition Growth Parameters Growth Parameters compiled the species specific growth rate parameters from various observation Product and Market Product and Market is a database of various product from the tree species and also the marketing network collection Species Use, Utility and Ethnobotany Species Use, Utility and Ethnobotany is the compilation of various benefit of a tree species Growth and Yield Models Growth and Yield Models compiling the observation result of growth rate and yield modelling Watershed Function A collection of water catchment area including the climatic data on the area Soil and Land Form Soil and Land Form is a database on soil type, soil structure and any other soil properties on specific location Mesoclimate Meso-climate is a data collection from meso-climate observation Plot Map Coordinates Plot Map Coordinates connecting Plot ID location to world map Carbon Stock Carbon Stock modules displaying various carbon stock calculation method and result from Tree Inventory data Tree Suitability Tree Suitability modules is attemp to match the optimum ecology of tree species to spatialy explicite geographical ecology World Map World Map is a map that was backing up by Google Map layers as the base map for any spatial explicite data Climatic Zonation Climatic Zonation is zonation area based on homogen climatic characteristic Land Cover and Conectivity Land Cover Map is remote sensing data that classified into land cover characteristic and may available in time series data Floristic and Eco-Regions Floristic and Eco-Regions is zonation area based on ecological homogenous Functional diversity indicator, Ecolabeling criteria Taxonomy, Synonyms The standard taxon of tree species including genus, family and synonym Common Names A common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, trivial name, trivial epithet, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name in general use within a community Botanical Description General botanical description of a species Digital Herbarium A Collection of herbarium in digital format Pollination and Dispersal Wood Density A collection of wood density data Allometric Relations A compilation of species specific allometric relation of a vegetation Leaf Morphotype A collection of general leaf morphotype keys of individual tree species Species Identification Tools The tool for tree species identification based on leaf morphotype keys and digital herbarium data |