1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️
A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers!
🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space
🔗 Website: https://bit.ly/VegVault
#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits
A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers!
🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space
🔗 Website: https://bit.ly/VegVault
#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits
Comments
VegVault is an interdisciplinary SQLite database integrating:
🌱 Modern vegetation (BIEN, sPlotOpen)
🌿 Paleoecological records (Neotoma, FOSSILPOL)
🌍 Climate & soil data (CHELSA, WoSIS)
🌾 Functional traits (TRY)
All ready for analysis! 📊🔬
#SQLite #Reproducibility
📌 110 GB of data
📌 480,000+ datasets
📌 13M+ samples
📌 110,000+ taxa
📌 11M+ trait values
📌 8 abiotic variables
All stored in an interconnected SQLite database with 29 tables & 87 variables.
🔗 Access: https://bit.ly/VegVault
#Global #Palaeobiology
Most biodiversity models rely on recent data, but ecosystems evolve over millennia! ⏳🌱
🌿 VegVault bridges the gap between past & present vegetation
📊 Helps linking functional traits to past & present vegetation
🔥 Supports research on ecosystem responses to
#ClimateChange
📦 An R package designed for seamless database access:
✅ No SQL required – just load & go!
✅ Filter by taxa, traits, time & space
✅ Directly usable in R for analysis
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/vaultkeepr
#vaultkeepr #Rstats ##DataIntegration
📜 Our new preprint "VegVault database: linking global paleo-, and neo-vegetation data with functional traits and abiotic drivers" is now online!
📖 Read here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.31.635213
#Preprint #OpenScience
Both the website & preprint include:
📌 Example projects using the database
📌 Code snippets to extract & analyse data