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Vegetation survey (BACI and Paired-plots) from arid central Australia for impacts of buffel grass on resident native plant communities
<p>The data set accompanies the accepted paper in Ecosphere. The data set includes two experimental appraoches to assess the spread and impacts of buffel grass, Cenchrus cilairis, in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of arid central Australia: a Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) experiment over 25 years at 15 sites (surveyed in 1994-95 and 2018-19), and a spatially paired-plot (randomised-block) experiment at 18 sites (surveyed in 2018-19). Both experiments spanned two geographic regions (~ 300 km apart) and multiple vegetation communities amongst flat plains and rocky hills landforms. Each experimental design has a plant species data set, and a data set that includes site variables and summed relative cover of plant functional groups. Data collection methodology is described in the accompanying paper, and summarised here.</p> <p>Each site was one hectare in size. The ecological data was collected in accordance with standard biological survey methods in South Australia (Heard and Channon 1997), including recording of plant species and cover abundance, life form, height class and habitat variables including percent bare earth, litter, rock/strew and soil type (clay percent). Fire history for the previous 25 years was also available from fire scar mapping. Species cover-abundance was estimated in the field using a modified Braun-Blanquet scale and later converted to a raw continuous variable based on the mid-point of the cover class: 1% (1-10 plants, <5% cover); 2% (sparsely present, <5% cover; 3% (plentiful but <5% cover); 15% (5 to 25% cover class); 37% (25 to 50% cover class); 63% (50 to 75% cover class). Buffel grass was recorded on the same scale. Plant species were vouchered and identification checked post-field by the South Australian Hebarium. Plant taxonomy reflects current names (as of 2015) in the Biological Databases of South Australia and taxonomy was aligned between the 1990s and 2020s decades. Recently some species have been split into multiple species (e.g. <em>Acacia aneura</em>, Mulga) but this latest taxonomy was not adopted to retain taxonomic alignment within the dataset. The raw mid-point percent cover was converted to relative percent cover by dividing each species’ (or groups’) raw cover by the summed cover of all species at that site (including buffel grass + understorey + overstorey species). Classification of plants into functional groups was based on field assessed (1) height class + (2) life form, and literature-derived (3) life strategy (perennial or annual) + (4) Native status to South Australia. Height classes were grouped into overstorey (>1m in height) and understorey (≤1m). Summed relative cover for each functional group per site is included in the site and cover data sets to facilitate modelling of cover with site variables. The plant species data sets is the full list of species and cover abundance recorded at each site which can be used for analysis of community composition, diversity, turnover or individual species change. Sensitive species (one species in this dataset) has had the coordinates denatured by 10km due according to the requirements of the Biological Database of South Australia for sensitive species. All coordinates provided in MGA 52 Eastings and Northings (UTM, Australian National Grid). </p> <p>The authors wish to acknowledge Traditional Owners and Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands Organisation who gave permission for collaboration, data collection, photographs and reporting on and about their Traditional Lands. Data is jointly the Intellectual Property of Aṉangu as the Traditional Owners and the author team, and approval has been granted for research and publication use with appropriate acknowledgment of Aṉangu and the author team. The 1990s baseline data is also the Intellectual Property of the South Australian Government and is made publicly available under a licencing agreement with the Biological Databases of South Australia (licence number 2412). Many people assisted in the field during the 1990s and 2020s vegetation surveys and are wholly acknowledged. APY Land Management, Alinytjara Wilurara Landscape Board, Central Land Council, Ten Deserts Project, Charles Darwin University, South Australian Department for Environment and Water, State Herbarium of South Australia, Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, Jill Landsberg Trust and Ecological Society of Australia all provided either funding and/or in-kind support of the project. Study conducted with APY Executive Board approval, South Australian Scientific Permit Q26782 and Northern Territory Wildlife Permit 63104. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Data from 'Tracability of Forest Reproductive Material with the quality label 'Plant van Hier': A DNA database with genetic profiles of native autochthonous tree and shrub species of Flanders, Belgium'
<h2>Background</h2> <p>Indigenous trees and shrubs play an important role in multifunctional forest management. They form a significant part of the biodiversity in our forests. Forest reproductive material (FRM) of autochthonous Flemish origin is sold under the quality label ‘Plant van Hier’, a certification mark of the Agency for Nature and Forests. To ensure the provenance of the seedlings, we developed a DNA-database of genetic profiles of potential parent trees, using species-specific genetic markers. This database enables the traceability of FRM of the ‘Plant van Hier’ label throughout the entire production chain; from seed harvesting and cultivation to planting by the end user.</p> <p>This database contains the genetic profiles of almost all possible parent trees present within 27 Flemish autochthonous seed orchards of eight ecologically important tree and shrub species: <em>Carpinus betulus</em>, <em>Corylus avellana</em>, <em>Frangula alnus</em>, <em>Populus tremula</em>, <em>Sorbus aucuparia</em>, <em>Tilia cordata</em>, <em>Tilia platyphyllos,</em> and <em>Ulmus laevis</em>. The profiles were established using microsatellite markers (11 to 24 markers per species). New genetic markers were developed for <em>Carpinus betulus</em> and <em>Ulmus laevis</em>. PCR products were run on an ABI 3500 Genetic Analyser (Thermo Fisher Scientific).</p> <h2>Files</h2> <p>The files will be updated when new genotypes are added to the seed orchards. The current data files contain data from genotypes collected in the period 2018-2023. </p> <h3>Species_genotypes</h3> <p>These files contain the genetic fingerprints of the parent trees of autochthonous Flemish seed orchards. Missing data is indicated as ‘MD’. For <em>Carpinus betulus</em>, an octoploid species, the allelic phenotype is given instead of the genotype as the number of times that an allele occurs on a specific locus is not known.</p> <p>The next metadata is additionally given:<br>- Species: the Latin name of the species<br>- Seed_orchard: the name of the seed orchard in which the genotypes are located<br>- Code_seed_orchard: the code of the seed orchard in which the genotypes are located as given in the Register of Flemish Forest Reproductive Material (‘Register bosbouwkundig uitgangsmateriaal’; inbo.be)<br>- Genotype: the fieldname given to the genotype<br>- Origin: the location where the genotype was collected in Flanders, Belgium. Genotypes were collected from natural stands which are assumed to have an autochthonous origin. When the specific location is unknown, the location ‘Flanders’ is given. <br>- Year_sampled: the year in which the genotypes were sampled in the respective seed orchard for genetic analysis.</p> <h3>Species_binsets</h3> <p>These files contain the binsets and allele names that are used to score the alleles of the genotypes in the programme Geneious Prime 2019.3.2 (<a href="https://www.geneious.com">https://www.geneious.com</a>). For <em>Tilia platyphyllos </em>and <em>Tilia cordata</em>, the same binsets were used.</p>
Plant Atlas 2020 — Plant native statuses for Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands
<p>Plant Atlas 2020 is the most comprehensive survey of plants (flowering plants, ferns and charophytes) ever undertaken in Britain and Ireland. It is based on over 30 million records, collected mainly by volunteer recorders of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) between 2000 and 2019, as well as previous nationwide surveys undertaken in the 1950s and 1990s. This resource provides the data behind statements concerning species’ native statuses, for various geographical levels and areas, presented in the Plant Atlas 2020 website (<a href="http://www.plantatlas2020.org"><span>www.plantatlas2020.org</span></a><span>) and book (Stroh et al., 2023).</span></p>
Data from: The thermal limits of native plant species in California Coastal Sage Scrub
<p>Field and laboratory data for Goldsmith et al. (<em>In Review</em>) entitled, "The thermal limits of native plant species in California Coastal Sage Scrub." Four data files are included: </p> <p><strong><em>Goldsmithetal_PlantFunctionalTraitMetaData-18July24.xlsx </em></strong>-Provides metadata (header, description, units, measurement type, and expample) for each column of the file entitled "<em>Goldsmithetal_PlantFunctionalTraitData-18July24.csv." </em></p> <p><em><strong>Goldsmithetal_PlantFunctionalTraitData-18July24.csv </strong>- </em>Provides raw data for field and lab observations of plant functional traits as described in the methods section of this data record. </p> <p><em><strong>Goldsmithetal_PlantFvFmLabData-29March24.csv </strong>- </em>Provides raw data for experimental lab observations of leaf fv/fm following experimental heat treatments as described in the methods section of this data record. <em><br></em></p> <p><em><strong>Goldsmithetal_PlantFvFmLabMetaData-2Aug23.xlsx</strong> - </em>Provides metadata (header, description, units, measurement type, and expample) for each column of the file entitled "Goldsmithetal_PlantFvFmLabData-29March24.csv." </p> <p> </p> <p>Contact Greg Goldsmith (goldsmith at chapman dot edu) for additional information. </p>
Contrasting plant adaptation strategies to latitude in the native and invasive range of Spartina alterniflora: geographic survey (2014) and Common garden (2015-2017)
We examined trait differences and evolution across geographic clines among continents of the intertidal grass Spartina alterniflora within its invasive and native ranges. Between September and November 2014, we sampled vegetative and reproductive traits in the field at 20 sites over 20° latitude in China (invasive range) and 28 sites over 17° latitude in the US (native range). We grew both Chinese and US plants in a greenhouse common garden for three years (2015 - 2017) to determine if differences in performance of S. alterniflora between the introduced and native ranges were due to genetic differences or differences in abiotic conditions.
Dataset of Proportion of non-native plants in urban parks correlates with climate, socioeconomic factors and plant traits
<p>Full datasets for the research entitled 'Proportion of non-native plants in urban parks correlates with climate, socioeconomic factors and plant traits'.</p>
Supplementary material 3 from: Bongard C, Butler K, Fulthorpe R (2013) Investigation of fungal root colonizers of the invasive plant Vincetoxicum rossicum and co-occurring local native plants in a field and woodland area in Southern Ontario. Nature Conservation 4: 55-76. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.4.3578
Supplementary material 3 from: Bongard C, Butler K, Fulthorpe R (2013) Investigation of fungal root colonizers of the invasive plant Vincetoxicum rossicum and co-occurring local native plants in a field and woodland area in Southern Ontario. Nature Conservation 4: 55-76. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.4.3578
Resource use strategies, resistance and tolerance to aerial biomass removal in Argentina mid-west native plants
<p>Dataset of the PhD Thesis from Lucas D. Gorné:<br> - Gorné LD. 2018. Estrategias de uso de recursos, resistencia y tolerancia a la remoción de biomasa aérea en plantas nativas del centro-oeste de Argentina. Tesis del Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Córdoba, Argentina. https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/handle/11336/87925.</p>
Data from: Efficacy of labile carbon addition to reduce fast-growing, invasive non-native plants: A review and meta-analysis
<p>Data and analysis in R for the publication "Efficacy of labile carbon addition to reduce fast-growing, invasive non-native plants: A review and meta-analysis" by Ossanna & Gornish (2023), <em>Journal of Applied Ecology</em>, <em>60</em>(2), 218-228. <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14324">https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14324</a>.</p>
Native and exotic plants play different roles in urban pollination networks across seasons
<p>Datasets for 'Native and exotic plants play different roles in urban pollination networks across seasons' by Zaninotto et al. (2023) in Oecologia.</p>
Emerging fungal pathogen of an invasive grass: Implications for competition with native plant species
This data package includes data and code from an experiment testing the effects of a leaf spot fungal infection and competition from the invasive (to the U.S.) grass Microstegium vimineum on the performance of three native grass species: Dichanthelium clandestinum, Elymus virginicus, and Eragrostis spectabilis. The experiment was performed between June and September of 2019 in a greenhouse on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, FL, USA. The leaf spot infection is caused by the fungal pathogen Bipolaris gigantea, which has recently emerged on populations of M. vimineum in the U.S. We tested the hypothesis that infection of B. gigantea would both directly and indirectly affect the native grass species by measuring the change in biomass of each species with and without pathogen inoculation (direct effects) and by measuring the effect of pathogen inoculation on M. vimineum competition through changes in native grass biomass across a density gradient of M. vimneum (indirect effects). The code includes statistical analyses and figures. The code was run using R (version 4.0.1).
The effects of agricultural land-use history on non-native plant invasion in Bent Creek Experimental Forest in 2006
The researchers considered the effects of agricultural land-use legacies on the distribution of non-native invasive plants a century after abandonment in a watershed in western North Carolina, USA. The study was conducted at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest (BCEF) 15 km southwest of Asheville, North Carolina, USA, in the Pisgah National Forest. Forest sites that were previously in cultivation and abandoned ca. 1905 were compared with nearby reference sites that were never cultivated. The most common invasive plants were Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb., Microstegium vimineum Trin., and Lonicera japonica Thunb. (Kuhman, Pearson, and Turner 2011). Disentangling the cause–effect relationships between land-use history, the biotic community, and the abiotic template presents a challenge, but understanding the role of land-use legacies may provide important insights regarding the mechanisms underlying the establishment and spread of invasive plants in forest ecosystems (Kuhman, Pearson, and Turner 2011). A total of 86 plots were established at Bent Creek Experimental Forest during the summer of 2006. Specifically, the study was conducted between June and August 2006. Half of these were established in historic agricultural plots and half in reference plots that were not formerly used for agriculture (pasture or rowcrops) based on the 1941 Forest Service Report by William Nesbitt and the appended land-use history map (History of early settlement and land use on the Bent Creek Experimental Forest Buncombe County, NC. 1941). Historic agriculture and reference plots were paired based on similarities in topography and bedrock geology (typically in relatively close proximity to one another). Within sites, two plots were established, one adjacent to the road and one 50 m away from the road (labeled as "A" and "B", respectively, in the "Plot #").
Does land-use history facilitate non-native plant invasion? A field experiment with Celastrus orbiculatus in the Bent Creek Experimental Forest in the southern Appalachians from 2008 to 2009
Although historic land use is often implicated in non-native plant invasion of forests, little is known about how land-use legacies might actually facilitate invasion. The researchers conducted a 2-year field seeding experiment in western North Carolina, USA, to compare germination and first-year seedling survival of Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb. in stands that had been cultivated and abandoned a century earlier and were dominated by tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera L.), and in paired stands that had never been cultivated and were dominated by oaks (Quercus spp.). Experiments were conducted at five sites with paired tulip poplar and oak stands by varying litter mass (none, low, or high) and litter type (tulip poplar or oak).
Figure 3 in You are what you eat: native versus exotic Crotalaria species (Fabaceae) as host plants of the Ornate Bella Moth, Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Figure 3. Rates of development of Utetheisa ornatrix larvae on different species of native and exotic Crotalaria in Florida and effect of leaves versus beans in the diet (see text for details): (A) partial development of larvae on the native C. rotundifolia versus exotic C. lanceolata; (B, C) partial development of larvae on the native C. pumila versus exotic C. lanceolata; (D, E) development of larvae on the exotic C. spectabilis/retusa versus exotic C. lanceolata; (F) development of larvae on C. incana (native to U. ornatrix range in the Neotropics, but introduced to Florida) versus exotic C. lanceolata. (F – based on data from Sourakov and Locascio 2013).
Figure 4 in You are what you eat: native versus exotic Crotalaria species (Fabaceae) as host plants of the Ornate Bella Moth, Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Figure 4. Fore wing size of Utetheisa ornatrix raised on different species of native and exotic Crotalaria and effect of leaves versus beans in the diet (see text for details): (A) Fore wing size of
Figure 2 in You are what you eat: native versus exotic Crotalaria species (Fabaceae) as host plants of the Ornate Bella Moth, Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Figure 2. (A) Understorey of the Florida hammock habitat occupied with invasive exotic Crotalaria spectabilis; (B) a clearing in a secondary Florida habitat, overgrown with exotic Crotalaria pallida; (C, D) mature larvae of U. ornatrix prefer pods of C. spectabilis over leaves; (E) carpenter ants are attracted to the extrafloral nectaries of C. lanceolata; (F, G) larva of U. ornatrix on C. pumila and a pod destroyed by it; (H) mature larva of U. ornatrix inside a pod of C. incana; (I, J) pods of C. pallida are numerous and large and provide ample food and shelter for U. ornatrix; (K) empty pods of C. spectabilis in December with all of their seeds consumed by U. ornatrix larvae; (L) in December, C. retusa becomes the preferred hostplant of U. ornatrix in the C. spectabilis-dominated habitat, when the latter declines; similarly, C. pumila becomes preferred for oviposition in C. lanceolata-dominated habitat; (M) the seeds of C. retusa are well protected by thick walls of the pod; here, a third instar larva is unable to penetrate it; (N) onset of the ultimate instar; (O–Q) prepupa-to-pupa development of U. ornatrix.
Figure 1 in You are what you eat: native versus exotic Crotalaria species (Fabaceae) as host plants of the Ornate Bella Moth, Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Figure 1. (A) In the wild population of U. ornatrix, adult moth landing on the flower of exotic Crotalaria retusa, Micanopy, Florida; (B) a typical size of a moth from a wild population at Cross Creek, Florida, resulting from larval feeding on C. rotundifolia leaves (top) and its offspring raised in the laboratory on beans of C. spectabilis (bottom) (fore wing length = 20 mm); (C) a single egg batch split in two (experimental and control groups) prior to hatching; (D) hostplant preference test using mature larvae of U. ornatrix inside a tray; (E) differences in pod size and seed volume in six Crotalaria species found in Florida; (F) difference in sprouting rate under similar conditions: native Crotalaria pumila shows much slower sprouting rate than introduced invasive Crotalaria species; (G) upland pine habitat on the University of Florida campus overtaken by thousands of exotic Crotalaria lanceolata plants with a sporadic native C. pumila in the midst (October 2014); (H) U. ornatrix eggs on C. lanceolata; (I) first instar larvae; (J) third instar larva.
Final spatial dataset for native Norwegian vascular plants
<p>Occurrence data for the native Norwegian vascular plant species obtained from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The dataset contains 3,597,865 occurrences.</p>
Dataset of Invasion risks and social interest of non-native woody plants in urban parks of Spain
<p>Full datasets for the research entitled "Invasion risks and social interest of non-native woody plants in urban parks of Spain"</p>
Functional traits—not nativeness—shape the effects of large mammalian herbivores on plant communities
<p>Large mammalian herbivores (megafauna) have experienced extinctions and declines since prehistory. Introduced megafauna have partly counteracted these losses yet are thought to have unusually negative effects compared to native megafauna. Using a meta-analysis of 3,995 plot-scale plant abundance and diversity responses from 221 studies, we found no evidence that megafauna impacts were shaped by nativeness, 'invasiveness', 'feralness', coevolutionary history, or functional and phylogenetic novelty. Nor was there evidence that introduced megafauna facilitate introduced plants more than native megafauna. Instead, we found strong evidence that functional traits shaped megafauna impacts, with larger-bodied and bulk-feeding megafauna promoting plant diversity. Our work suggests that trait-based ecology provides better insight into interactions between megafauna and plants than concepts of nativeness.</p>
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