title: CLO-PLA: a database of clonal and bud-bank traits of the Central European flora.
abstract: This dataset presents comprehensive and easy-to-use information on 29 functional traits of clonal growth, bud banks, and lifespan of members of the Central European flora. The source data were compiled from a number of published sources (see the reference file) and the authors' own observations or studies. In total, 2,909 species are included (2,745 herbs and 164 woody species), out of which 1,532 (i.e., 52.7% of total) are classified as possessing clonal growth organs (1,480, i.e., 53.9%, if woody plants are excluded). This provides a unique, and largely unexplored, set of traits of clonal growth that can be used in studies on comparative plant ecology, plant evolution, community assembly, and ecosystem functioning across the large flora of Central Europe. It can be directly imported into a number of programs and packages that perform trait-based and phylogenetic analyses aimed to answer a variety of open and pressing ecological questions.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, CZ-379 82, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jitka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klimešová
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jiří
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Danihelka
authors.affiliation: Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, PrůFhonice, CZ-252 43, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jindřich
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chrtek
authors.affiliation: Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, CZ-379 82, Czech Republic.|Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: de Bello
authors.affiliation: Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, PrůFhonice, CZ-252 43, Czech Republic.|Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, Praha 2, CZ-128 01, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Tomáš
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Herben
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D005060:Europe; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: Central European flora; Czech flora; bud-bank traits; clonal traits; functional ecology; lifespan; vascular plants