SALVIAS: An eco-informatics approach to test continental scale hypotheses Michael D. Weiser University of Arizona Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

SALVIAS: An eco-informatics approach to test continental scale hypotheses Michael D. Weiser Brad Boyle Brian Enquist

SALVIAS database An Application

N American temperate deciduous Boreal & subalpine Tropical Central & South America Mexican pine-oak UPGMA generic composition N Mexican cloud forests Florissant Boyle, Enquist & Mayer, in prep

ENQUIST, BRIAN J.,* ANDREW J. KERKHOFF, BRAD BOYLE, MEGAN C. MCCARTHY and NATHAN G. SWENSON. Assessing local and global constraints on plant community structure: Quantifying small-scale distributions of size, functional traits, and phylogenetic affiliations. POSTER #180 THURSDAY

What is SALVIAS? 1. Describe large scale patterns of plant ecology, evolution, biogeography, etc. and 2. Understand the processes that generated the patterns

What is SALVIAS? Research network >120 researchers from 20 countries Online databases of plant occurrences Set of Eco-Informatics tools Get data into hands of researchers while protecting intellectual property rights of the originator

What is SALVIAS? Focal unit is observation The record of -a given taxon at -a given place at -a given time using -a given method.

Observations taxon place time method

Observations taxon place time method Herbarium Specimen

Tropicos, Missouri Botanical Garden, MO, USA University of Arizona Herbarium, AZ, USA New York Botanical Garden Databases, NY, USA University of British Columbia Herbarium, BC, Canada Herbario del Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad de Costa Rica, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica Árboles de la Península de Yucatán, Flora del Distrito de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca Banco Nacional de Germoplasma Vegetal, México Botanical Research Institute of Texas, TX, USA Cactáceas de la Península de Baja California, México, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México Herbarium at Arizona State University Kew Botanical Garden (Mexican Specimen through REMIB) Herbario Weberbauer de la Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Perú Estudio Taxonómico del Género Quercus (Fagaceae) en el Estado de México, México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Iztacala Flora del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Iztacala Flora Vascular de la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México Herbario de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, México Herbario de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México Herbario de la Universidad de Sonora, México Herbario del Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán Herbario del Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, BCS, México Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, México Herbario Sessé y Mociño: Plantas de la Real Expedición Botánica a Nueva España

Lundell Herbarium, TX, USA Estado actual y fitogeografía de las especies de la Familia Cucurbitaceae endémicas de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Iztacala, México Rob & Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation, TX, USA S.M.Tracy Herbarium, Texas A&M University, TX, USA S.R. Warner Herbarium, Sam Houston State University, TX, USA San Angelo State University, TX, USA, Sonoran Desert Plant Atlas- USGS Desert Lab Southwest Texas State University, TX, USA Stephen F. Austin State University, TX, USA Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz, México Colección de Cactáceas Columnares de México, Instituto de Ecología, UNAM - Campus Morelia, DF., México Colección de Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, DF, México Colección de Pinos del Noreste de México, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, NL, México Deaver Herbarium at Northern Arizona University E.L. Reed Herbarium, Texas Tech University, TX, USA Colección de Árboles y Arbustos Nativos para la Restauración Ecológica y Reforestación de México, DF, Mexico Texas A&M University Herbarium, TX, USA University of Texas Herbarium, TX, USA University of Wisconsin, WISCOMP West Texas A&M University, TX, USA

Observations taxon place time method Inventories

Alwyn H. Gentry Transect Database (Missouri Botanical Garden) Amazon Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR) Brad Boyle Transect Database Brian Enquist Lab Transect Database Interior Northwest Vegetation Plots Inventarios de Bosques de la Costa del Ecuador Madidi Transect Database, Bolivia Noel Kempff Mercado Forest Plots database Noel Kempff Mercado Savanna Plots Organization for Tropical Studies Transect Database Pilon Lajas Treeplots, Bolivia Webb, Campbell Forest Inventory Database, Borneo

Alwyn H. Gentry Transect Database (Missouri Botanical Garden) Amazon Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR) Brad Boyle Transect Database Enquist Lab Transect Database Interior Northwest Vegetation Plots Inventarios de Bosques de la Costa del Ecuador Madidi Transect Database, Bolivia Noel Kempff Mercado Forest Plots database Noel Kempff Mercado Savanna Plots Organization for Tropical Studies Transect Database Pilon Lajas Treeplots, Bolivia Webb, Campbell Forest Inventory Database, Borneo

Observations >12,000 inventories >500 tenth ha Gentry Plots

>4,500,000 observations >12,000 Inventories >50 Herbaria + Local Checklists

The Relationship Between Range Size and Species Richness

12,980 Species New World Woody Plants Used SALVIAS databases to estimate latitudinal extent.

Weiser et al. in prep

Stevens 1989 Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I species New World Woody Plants

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Weiser et al. in prep Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern I

Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern II

Weiser et al. in prep

Rapoport’s Rule- Pattern II Weiser et al. in prep

SALVIAS 3.0

SALVIAS taxon place time method Traits

SALVIAS taxon place time method Traits

SALVIAS taxon place time method Traits

SALVIAS taxon place time method Traits Phylogeny

ENQUIST, BRIAN J.,* ANDREW J. KERKHOFF, BRAD BOYLE, MEGAN C. MCCARTHY and NATHAN G. SWENSON. Assessing local and global constraints on plant community structure: Quantifying small-scale distributions of size, functional traits, and phylogenetic affiliations. POSTER #180 THURSDAY

Merci…. Collaborators Benjamin Collantes M. Gustavo Fonseca W. Galiano Sanchez Michael Jennings Peter Jørgensen Drew Kerkhoff Tim Killeen Tom Lacher Abel Monteagudo Percy Nuñez-Vargas Oliver Phillips Rodolfo Vasquez Support Center for Applied Biodiversity Science Conservation International Univ. Arizona Ecology Evolutionary Biology Univ. Arizona Graduate College National Science Foundation Institute for the Study of the Planet Earth Computer Folks Srinivas Reddy Mudireddy, James Jeffers, Gavin Nelson, Nick Kneen, ARL-BCF Data Providers Missouri Botanical Garden, A.H. Gentry, T. Killeen, O. Phillips, M. Jennings, C. Webb, REMIB- CONABIO, UA Herbarium, IPNI, ITIS, OTS, RAINFOR, BRIT, Biological Diversity of the Guianas (Smithsonian), ICE, CalFlora, Deaver Herb., EL Reed Herb., INBIO, INW, Kew Gardens, NYBG, Lundell Herb., OR vascular plants, OTS, SDPA- USGS, USGS GNIS and Geonet, UBC Herb., TN plant atlas, FL plant atlas, UBC Herb., BRIT, Kew Botanical Garden, ASU Herb., Herbario Weberbauer, Deaver Herbarium, TAMU, WISCOMP, S.M.Tracy Herb., BANGEV, UNAM-Morelia, Metropolitana, Nuevo León, Iztacala, y Baja California, UTA herb., WTAM herb., SASU herb., IE Xalapa herb., and others…