Background The current data paper aims to interlink the African plant collections of the Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium (BR) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa Xylarium (Tw). Complementing both collections strengthens the reference value of each institutional collection, as more complete metadata are made available and it enables increased quality control for the identification of wood specimens. Furthermore, the renewed connection enables the linking of available wood trait data with data on phenology, leaf morphology or even molecular information for many tree species, allowing assessments of performance of individual trees. In addition to studies at the interspecific level, comparisons at the intraspecific level become possible, which could lead to important new insights into resilience to and impact of global change, as well as biodiversity conservation or forest management of Central African forest ecosystems. New information By interlinking the Tervuren Xylarium Wood database with the recently digitised herbarium of Meise Botanic Garden, we were able to establish a link between 6,621 xylarium and 9,641 herbarium records for 6,953 plant specimens. Both institutional databases were complemented with reliable specimen metadata. The Tervuren xylarium now profits from taxonomic revisions made by botanists at Meise Botanic Garden and a list of phenotypical features for woody African species can be extended with wood anatomical descriptors. New metadata from the Tw xylarium records were used to add the country of collection to 50 linked BR herbarium specimens for which this information was missing. Furthermore, metadata available from the labels on digitised BR herbarium specimens was used to update Tw xylarium records with the date of collection (817 records), collection locality (698 records), coordinates (482 records) and altitude (817 records). In conclusion, we created a reference database with reliable botanic identities which can be used in a range of studies, such as modelling analyses, community assessments or trait analyses, all framed in a spatiotemporal context. Furthermore, the linked collections hold historical reference data and specimens that can be studied in the context of global changes.

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当 xylarium 和植物标本馆相遇时：将 Tervuren xylarium 木材样本与梅塞植物园的植物标本馆标本联系起来

背景 目前的数据文件旨在将梅塞植物园植物标本馆 (BR) 和中非木兰皇家博物馆 (Tw) 的非洲植物收藏相互关联。对这两个馆藏的补充增强了每个机构馆藏的参考价值，因为提供了更完整的元数据，并且可以加强对木材标本识别的质量控制。此外，更新后的连接能够将可用的木材性状数据与许多树种的物候、叶片形态甚至分子信息数据联系起来，从而可以评估单个树木的性能。除了种间水平的研究外，种内水平的比较成为可能，这可能导致对全球变化的复原力和影响的重要新见解，以及中非森林生态系统的生物多样性保护或森林管理。新信息 通过将 Tervuren Xylarium Wood 数据库与最近数字化的 Meise 植物园植物标本馆相互关联，我们能够在 6,621 个 xylarium 和 9,641 个植物标本馆记录之间建立联系，其中包含 6,953 个植物标本。两个机构数据库都补充了可靠的标本元数据。Tervuren xylarium 现在受益于 Meise 植物园植物学家所做的分类修订，并且可以使用木材解剖描述符扩展非洲木本植物的表型特征列表。来自 Tw xylarium 记录的新元数据用于将收集国添加到缺少此信息的 50 个相关 BR 植物标本馆标本中。此外，数字化 BR 植物标本馆标本标签上的元数据用于更新 Tw xylarium 记录，包括采集日期（817 条记录）、采集地点（698 条记录）、坐标（482 条记录）和海拔（817 条记录）。总之，我们创建了一个具有可靠植物特性的参考数据库，可用于一系列研究，例如建模分析、群落评估或性状分析，所有这些都在时空背景下构建。此外，链接的馆藏包含历史参考数据和标本，可以在全球变化的背景下进行研究。我们创建了一个具有可靠植物特性的参考数据库，可用于一系列研究，例如建模分析、群落评估或性状分析，所有这些都在时空背景下构建。此外，链接的馆藏包含历史参考数据和标本，可以在全球变化的背景下进行研究。我们创建了一个具有可靠植物特性的参考数据库，可用于一系列研究，例如建模分析、群落评估或性状分析，所有这些都在时空背景下构建。此外，链接的馆藏包含历史参考数据和标本，可以在全球变化的背景下进行研究。