Data from: Modern pollen rain predicts shifts in plant trait composition but not plant diversity along the Andes-Amazon elevational gradient

  • Masha van der Sande (Creator)
  • Mark B. Bush (Creator)
  • Dunia Urrego (Creator)
  • Miles R. Silman (Creator)
  • William Farfan-Rios (Creator)
  • Karina Garcia-Cabrera (Creator)
  • Alexander Shenkin (Creator)
  • Yadvinder Malhi (Creator)
  • Crystal H. McMichael (Creator)
  • William Gosling (Creator)

Dataset

Description

We used 82 modern pollen samples and 59 vegetation plots along the elevation gradient, and calculated CWM traits and diversity indices for each pollen sample and vegetation plot. We also quantified the degree to which taxa are over- or underrepresented by their pollen, by dividing the relative pollen abundance by the relative basal area abundance in the nearby vegetation survey plots (i.e. the R-rel values).
Date made available23 Nov 2023
PublisherWageningen University & Research
Temporal coverage2001 - 2004
Geographical coverageAndes-Amazon; Kosñipata, Peru; Callanga, Angola; Palotoa, Peru

Keywords

  • diversity
  • elevation
  • functional traits
  • pollen
  • R-rel values
  • richness
  • taphonomy
  • tropical Andes
  • tropical forest

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