Plant traits and associated ecological data from global change experiments and climate gradients in Norway
Vigdis Vandvik, Aud H. Halbritter, Marc Macias‐Fauria, Brian Maitner, Sean T. Michaletz, Richard J. Telford, Nicole Bison, Julia Chacón‐Labella, Sehoya Cotner, Dagmar Egelkraut, Josef C. Garen, Joseph Gaudard, Sonya R. Geange, Maria A. Rosati, Emil Alexander Sherman Andersen, Sam J. Ahler, Joe Atkinson, Marta Baumane, Pia M. Bradler, Hilary Rose Dawson, Julia Eckberg, Alexander Elsy, Joshua Erkelenz, Susan E. Eshelman, Coşkun Güçlü, Rebekka Gullvåg, Ragnhild Gya, Sorrel Hartford, Meghan T. Hayden, Mukhlish Jamal Musa Holle, Alyssa T. Kullberg, Kai Lepley, Marta Correia, Cora Ena Löwenstein, Celesté Maré, Dickson Gerald Mauki, Jocelyn Navarro, Barryette Oberholzer, Bernard Olivier, Alyssa Olson, Courtenay A. Ray, Jonathan von Oppen, Tom Vorstenbosch, Jonathan Wang, Brian J. Enquist
Abstract
Abstract Plant functional trait-based approaches are powerful tools to assess the consequences of global environmental changes for plant ecophysiology, population and community ecology, ecosystem functioning, and landscape ecology. Here, we present data capturing these ecological dimensions from grazing, nitrogen addition, and warming experiments conducted along a 821 m a.s.l. elevation gradient and from a climate warming experiment conducted across a 3,200 mm precipitation gradient in boreal and alpine grasslands in Vestland County, western Norway. From these systems we collected 28,762 plant and leaf functional trait measurements from 76 vascular plant species, 88 leaf assimilation-temperature responses, 577 leaf handheld hyperspectral readings, 2.26 billion leaf temperature measurements, 3,696 ecosystem CO 2 flux measurements, and 10.69 ha of multispectral (10-band) and RGB cm-resolution imagery from 4,648 individual images obtained from airborne sensors. These data augment existing longer-term data on local climate, soils, plant populations, plant community composition, and ecosystem functioning from within the same experiments and study systems and from similar systems in other mountain regions globally.