Description
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This dataset contains all the measurements on which the Gignoux et al. (2016) associated artilce is based. It describes the results of a 15-months growth experiment testing the response of 2 species of savanna tree seedlings and 2 species of forest tree species, all growing in the Lamto reserve, Côte d'Ivoire (6°13′N, 5°02′W), to fire and shading treatments.
432 seedlings of Ceiba pentandra, Cynometra megalophylla (rainforest species), Bridelia ferruginea and Piliostigma thonningii (humid savanna species) were grown during 15 months under 2 fire (burned, unburned) and shading (full light, 40% full light) experimental treatments. All seedlings were measured (1) every 3 months for height, number of leaves, stem diameter; (2) once for photosynthetic assimilation (Amax) under two different light levels matching the levels of the shading treatment; (3) three times for root, stem, leaf biomass, an leaf surface (destructive sampling of 36 sedlings per date).
This work was not funded by any important programme. (2020-05-26)
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Keyword
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fire, shade tolerance, biomass, biomass allocation, survival, tree, seedling, leaf area, photosynthesis, plant height, stem diameter, seed weight, dataset |
Related Publication
| Gignoux, J., Konaté, S., Lahoreau, G., Le Roux, X., & Simioni, G. (2016). Allocation strategies of savanna and forest tree seedlings in response to fire and shading: outcomes of a field experiment. Scientific Reports, 6, 38838. doi: 10.1038/srep38838
doi: 10.1038/srep38838 |
Notes
| The data file is self-contained: it contains important metadata on (1) authors, (2) dataset status, (3) data quality, (4) numeric variable measurement units, accuracy, range etc., (5) code meaning for qualitative data, plus (6) an R-script to read and assemble all the spread sheets into one R-object after exporting every sheet as a csv-file.
The file is a spreadhseet containing 21 sheets. The first 6 are metadata sheets, the 15 others are the experimental data. Sheets are designed to contain no structural missing data, only accidental missing data are possible. Column headings are compatible with R naming convention.
Note that these are raw data, and that some preparation is required prior to analysis - assembling various sheets together, for example.
The experimental plot (12 x 18 m) is centred on the geospatial coordinates, the longest side following the North-South axis. |