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About CLO-PLA

CLO-PLA (currently version 4.0) is a database of traits on clonal growth and vegetative regeneration of plants as well as of absence of it.

It is a result of work of many people (see the Acknowledgement) led by Jitka Klimešová. It is a sequel to the CLO-PLA ver. 3.0 database, which covered only species occurring in Central Europe (aggregated version of it is available as a datapaper; Klimešová et al. 2017). For further details of the database development, its individual versions and associated publications see the History section.

The current version of the CLO-PLA database (i.e. the version 4.0) is having a worldwide scope, covering data sets from many (now primarily temperate, but open to expansion) regions. It is an assembly of individual component databases (sources; primarily geographically defined).

The trait data for these species have been collected using a standardized protocol (see Klimešová et al. 2019), what permits an in-depth comparison of clonal growth organ data across different species and regions. It has a number of features that have not been present in earlier versions, among others:

  • the trait list is fully consistent across all species (although not all traits have been recorded for all species),
  • it covers both aggregated and non-aggregated data on individual species,
  • species names have been fully harmonized with the Wolrd Flora Online,
  • the database environment offers good flexibility for data handling, export and import.

References

Klimešová, J., Danihelka, J., Chrtek, J., de Bello, F., Herben, T. (2017) CLO-PLA: a database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora. Ecology 98, 1179.

Klimešová, J., Martínková, J., Pausas, JG., Gomes de Moraes, M., Herben, T., Yu, FH., Puntieri J., Vesk, PA., de Bello F., Janeček, Š., Altman, J., Appezzato-da-Glória, B., Bartušková, A., Crivellaro, A., Doležal, J., Ott, JP., Paula S., Schnablová R., Schweingruber FH., Ottaviani G. (2019) Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 40: 125485, DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2019.125485.