- Last updated
- May 20, 2022
- Terms of use
-
- Organization
- EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
- Categories
- Education, culture and sport
Description
The data file refers to the data used in Portier et al. "Plot size matters: towards comparable species richness estimates across plot-based inventories" (2022) Ecology and Evolution.
This paper describes a methodoligical framework developed to allow meaningful species richness comparisons across plot-based inventories using different plot sizes. To this end, National Forest Inventory data from Switzerland, Slovakia, Norway and Spain were used. NFI plots were aggregated into mega-plots of larger sizes to build rarefaction curves. The data stored here correspond to the mega-plot level data used in the analyses, including for each country the size of the mega-plots in square meters (A), the corresponding species richness (SR) as well as all enrionmental heterogeneity measures described in the corresponding paper. Mega-plots of country-specific downscaled datasets are also provided.
The raw data from the Swiss NFI can be provided free of charge within the scope of a contractual agreement (http://www.lfi.ch/dienstleist/daten-en.php). Contact details for data requests from all NFIs can be found in the ENFIN website (http://enfin.info/).
Resources
Additional information
- Identifier
- fffa68ce-8818-4ff6-920d-dcc6786e484b@envidat
- Issued date
- May 8, 2022
- Modified date
- May 20, 2022
- Publisher
- EnviDat
- Contact points
- Languages
- English
- Further information
- -
- Landing page
- https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/mega-plots
- Documentation
-
- Temporal coverage
- -
- Spatial coverage
- -
- Update interval
- -
- Metadata Access
- API (JSON) Download XML
