Please cite this archive and the following article when using the Switchboard database:

Roeland Kindt, Ilyas Siddique, Ian Dawson, Innocent John, Fabio Pedercini, Jens-Peter B. Lillesø, Lars Graudal. 2025. The Agroforestry Species Switchboard, a global resource to explore information for 107,269 plant species. Sci Data 12, 1150. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05492-w

Coming soon : updating the Switchboard portal from version 3.0 to 4.0; https://apps.worldagroforestry.org/products/switchboard/

Acknowledgments

We are indebted to the tremendous efforts of experts that created the different databases covered by the Switchboard, as well as those that created taxonomic backbone data sets. We greatly appreciate the assistance provided by Christopher J. Earle in sharing a sitemap of the Gymnosperm database, by Laslo Pancel in sharing the masterlist of the 215 most frequently planted tree species in the tropics as listed in the Tropical Forestry Handbook, and by Jean-Christophe Claudon (ITTO) and Li Yianxia (INBAR) in addressing issues that prevented access to databases hosted by their institutions. CIFOR-ICRAF’s collaborative work with partners on trees, including on decision-support tools, receives significant financial support. Support for decision-support tools to enhance tree planting comes from Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative through its funding of the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolios project (PATSPO); from Germany’s International Climate Initiative through its funding for the Right Tree in the Right Place project (RTRP-Seed); from Darwin Plus (The Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund) through its funding of The Global Biodiversity Standard (Grant No. DAREX001); from the Bezos Earth Fund that invests in tree seed and seedling system development in Kenya and the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River Basin; and from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) through the IUCN-led Transforming the Eastern Province of Rwanda through Adaptation project (TREPA) and through the Climate Appropriate Portfolios of Tree Diversity in Burkina Faso (R-CAPTD). In addition, CIFOR-ICRAF gratefully acknowledges the support of the EU and broader CGIAR funding partners. I.S. thanks the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001 through PrInt-CAPES/UFSC of the Postgraduate Program in Plant Genetic Resources (RGV-UFSC). We greatly appreciate the efforts of our colleagues such as Ramni Jamnadass in acquiring funding. We thank the reviewer and Katrine Friborg for their suggestions on the manuscript.