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Subtropical forest vegetation along elevation gradient in Taiwan: Lalashan transect
Source of data
Zelený, Li, Shen, Chen et al. (data collected within Vegetation Ecology Lab, NTU)
Description of the dataset
Vegetation plots (20 m x 20 m) with recorded all woody species with DBH > 1 cm and taller than 2 m. A set of leaf and wood traits have been sampled for most of the species recorded in the dataset (measurement was done three leaves per individual, and for each species we collected at least three individuals along the transect). Topography, soil, light, decomposition and microclimate data are also available.
Locality
Environmental variables
| Name of variable | Description |
|---|---|
| Plot_ID | plot number |
| Elevation_zone | |
| Lat | |
| Long | |
| Elevation | |
| Aspect | |
| Aspect_folded | |
| Heatload | |
| MAT | |
| mean_coldest | |
| mean_warmest | |
| wet_events | |
| dry_events | |
| frosty_days | |
| Slope | |
| Soil_depth | |
| pH_H2O | |
| pH_KCl | |
| Ca | |
| Cu | |
| Fe | |
| K | |
| Mg | |
| Mn | |
| P | |
| Zn | |
| CN_ratio | |
| Total_N | |
| Total_C | |
| S_decomp | |
| k_decomp | |
| % Cnpy Open | |
| % Site Open | |
| Trans Dir | |
| Trans Dif | |
| Trans Tot | |
| % Trans Dir | |
| % Trans Dif | |
| % Trans Tot | |
| fog_freq | ground fog frequency |
Species traits
| Name of variable | Description |
|---|---|
| sp_abb | species abbreviation |
| LA | leaf area |
| LDMC | leaf dry matter content |
| SLA | specific leaf area |
| SSD | specific stem density (also woody density) |
| SPAD | chlorophyll content in leaf measured by SPAD |
| Lth | leaf thickness |
| Succ | succulence |
| VD | vein density |
| Drop_up | leaf water repellency (upper leaf surface) |
| Drop_below | leaf water repellency (below leaf surface) |
| d15N | N isotope concentration in the leafs |
| d13C | C isotope concentration in the leafs |
| N_mass | N concentration in the leaf |
| C_mass | C concentration in the leaf |
| CN | CN ratio in the leaf |
Data for download
| File name | File type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lalashan.xlsx | Excel file | Contains species × sample matrix, environmental variables, explanation of species abbreviations and metadata |
| lalashan.RData | r object file | An R object, a list of three components, spe, env and traits |
load (url ('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdealveindy/anadat-r/master/data/lalashan.RData'))
The lalashan object which will be loaded into the working space is a list with three components:
speCompositional matrix of all woody species and their calculated IVI (sample x species, importance value index)envMatrix of environmental variables (sample x env)traitsMatrix of species traits (species x traits); note that there are some missing values for some of the traits
References
You can check more details here: https://www.davidzeleny.net/veglab/doku.php?id=cloud_wind:start
en/data/lalashan.txt · Last modified: 2021/06/18 21:13 by David Zelený
