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Cover and frequency of biological soil crust community types, moss species, vascular plants, and abiotic land surface features, on gypsum & non-gypsum soils from the Chihuahuan and Mojave Deserts in 2023
This dataset contains raw and calculated percent cover and frequency data for biological soil crust (hereafter biocrust) functional groups, vascular plant functional groups, and abiotic land surface features on and off gypsum soils in the northern Chihuahuan and eastern Mojave Deserts. Abundance data were obtained from 20 study sites total, 10 located on soils derived from gypsum parent material and 10 located on soils derived from non-gypsum parent materials. Sites were grouped into 10 pairs, in which every gypsum site was partnered with a non-gypsum site located in the same region. Apart from soil type, partnered-site characteristics (topography, climate, elevation, slope, aspect, and presence of biocrusts) were held relatively constant. At each site, cover and frequency assessments were made using the line-point intercept method (LPI) and frequency quadrats (1.0 m^2), respectively. Biocrust functional groups included the following crusts: lichen, moss, incipient algal, light algal, dark algal, unknown photosynthetic crust, and vagrant cyanobacteria. Vascular plant categories included: perennial forbs, perennial graminoids, annual forbs, annual graminoids, subshrub, shrub, Yucca, and cacti. Abiotic land surface features included: woody litter, herbaceous litter, bare soil, rock, bedrock, and animal feces. Moss crusts identified within cover and frequency analyses were sampled, and classified to species level via microscopy. The resulting percent cover and frequency data was used to understand differences in biocrust and moss species abundance and diversity on and off gypsum soils; furthermore, how biocrust and moss species abundance was associated with the measured environmental variables. Soil physical and chemical data from this study can be accessed at knb-lter-jrn.210616002. This study and dataset are complete.
Supplementary material 1 from: Just A, Gourvil J, Millet J, Boullet V, Milon T, Mandon I, Dutrève B (2015) SIFlore, a dataset of geographical distribution of vascular plants covering five centuries of knowledge in France: Results of a collaborative project coordinated by the Federation of the National Botanical Conservatories. PhytoKeys 56: 47-60. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.56.5723
Numerical appendix: Explanation note: A shapefile representing the dataset completeness (based on the Jackknife 1, a non-parametric estimator) on a grid of 10 km by 10 km cells. The number of records in each cell was used as an estimator of the sampling effort. The ratio between the observed and estimated richness of species measures the completeness of the inventory in each surveyed cell (Vallet et al. 2012).
Figure 3 from: Just A, Gourvil J, Millet J, Boullet V, Milon T, Mandon I, Dutrève B (2015) SIFlore, a dataset of geographical distribution of vascular plants covering five centuries of knowledge in France: Results of a collaborative project coordinated by the Federation of the National Botanical Conservatories. PhytoKeys 56: 47-60. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.56.5723
Figure 3 - Density of cells by richness of observed species: looking at the distribution within the dataset, it appears that cells with less than 250 distinct species recorded are over-represented.
Figure 4 from: Just A, Gourvil J, Millet J, Boullet V, Milon T, Mandon I, Dutrève B (2015) SIFlore, a dataset of geographical distribution of vascular plants covering five centuries of knowledge in France: Results of a collaborative project coordinated by the Federation of the National Botanical Conservatories. PhytoKeys 56: 47-60. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.56.5723
Figure 4 - Dataset completeness for Metropolitan France according to the Jackknife 1 estimator (data from 1990 to 2013). The number of records in each cell was used as an estimator of the sampling effort. The ratio between the observed and estimated richness of species measures the completeness of inventory in each surveyed cell (Vallet et al. 2012).
Figure 1 from: Just A, Gourvil J, Millet J, Boullet V, Milon T, Mandon I, Dutrève B (2015) SIFlore, a dataset of geographical distribution of vascular plants covering five centuries of knowledge in France: Results of a collaborative project coordinated by the Federation of the National Botanical Conservatories. PhytoKeys 56: 47-60. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.56.5723
Figure 1 - Distribution of the dataset by family.
Figure 2 from: Just A, Gourvil J, Millet J, Boullet V, Milon T, Mandon I, Dutrève B (2015) SIFlore, a dataset of geographical distribution of vascular plants covering five centuries of knowledge in France: Results of a collaborative project coordinated by the Federation of the National Botanical Conservatories. PhytoKeys 56: 47-60. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.56.5723
Figure 2 - Temporal distribution of records by decade (shown on logarithmic scale).
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