OptGERM: a comprehensive database of within and among species germination and early seedling development for six European tree species
Key message
This dataset reports translocation experiments on 15,774 seeds from 43 populations of Abies alba Mill., Acer pseudoplatanus L., Fagus sylvatica L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl., Quercus pubescens Willd., and Quercus suber L. It informs ecological and evolutionary processes in early tree stages. Dataset access at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22043408 and metadata accessible at https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/15a31f1d-6658-4264-abed-67b5664b9c12.
Keywords
Silver fir; Sycamore; European beech; Sessile oak; Pubescent oak; Cork oak; Translocation experiment; Warming; Plasticity; Adaptation
Publication
Benito Garzón, M., Agro, M., Vicente, E. et al. OptGERM: a comprehensive database of within and among species germination and early seedling development for six European tree species. Annals of Forest Science 83, 47 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-026-01368-0
Data availability
The Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22043408) repository contains the entire database as two csv files (OptGERM_Traits.csv and OptGERM_Provenances.csv) and their corresponding OptGERM_Metadata.doc file. The R scripts used to plot Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are also included in the Zenodo repository.
Handling editor
Erwin Dreyer