@article{816a83c36e1b417486aeb984e3bebda6,
title = "Glopl, a global data base on pollen limitation of plant reproduction",
abstract = "Plant reproduction relies on transfer of pollen from anthers to stigmas, and the majority of flowering plants depend on biotic or abiotic agents for this transfer. A key metric for characterizing if pollen receipt is insufficient for reproduction is pollen limitation, which is assessed by pollen supplementation experiments. In a pollen supplementation experiment, fruit or seed production by flowers exposed to natural pollination is compared to that following hand pollination either by pollen supplementation (i.e. manual outcross pollen addition without bagging) or manual outcrossing of bagged flowers, which excludes natural pollination. The GloPL database brings together data from 2969 unique pollen supplementation experiments reported in 927 publications published from 1981 to 2015, allowing assessment of the strength and variability of pollen limitation in 1265 wild plant species across all biomes and geographic regions globally. The GloPL database will be updated and curated with the aim of enabling the continued study of pollen limitation in natural ecosystems and highlighting significant gaps in our understanding of pollen limitation.",
author = "Bennett, {J. M.} and Steets, {J. A.} and Burns, {J. H.} and W. Durka and Vamosi, {J. C.} and G. Arceo-G{\'o}mez and M. Burd and Burkle, {L. A.} and Ellis, {A. G.} and L. Freitas and Rodger, {J. G.} and M. Wolowski and J. Xia and Ashman, {T. L.} and Knight, {T. M.}",
note = "Funding Information: A global and temporally deep database on pollen limitation was assembled as part of a working group funded by sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. This database expands that used in Knight et al. (2005), which covered published Funding Information: This paper is the result of working group sPLAT supported by sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (DFG FZT 118). Additional funding was provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as part of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship of TMK, by the Helmholtz Association as part of the Helmholtz Recruitment Initiative to TMK and the Helmholtz Association International Fellowship to TLA, and NSF (DEB1452386) to TLA. Early support was received as part of a Pollen Limitation Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by NSF (DEB-00,72909). We would like to thank the many authors of the original publications for their work. We thank S. Renner and the Munich Botanical Garden, Squire Valleevue Farm and Valley Ridge Farm at Case Western Reserve University, Janette and Michael Breese, K. Kietzmann, and N. Becker for logistical support. We thank V. Stefan for assistance with preparing figures. MW acknowledges S{\~a}o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) for postdoctoral fellowship (2013/15.129-9). LF was supported by a CNPq PQ-grant. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018.",
year = "2018",
month = nov,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1038/sdata.2018.249",
language = "English",
volume = "5",
pages = "1--9",
journal = "Scientific Data",
issn = "2052-4463",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}