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Damasceno, G.; Fidelis, A.

Plant biodiversity and associated environmental data along an invasion gradient of Urochloa decumbens following prescribed burnings in a tropical savanna, Cerrado region, Brazil, 2019-2021 v2

https://doi.org/10.5285/15d26e24-345a-4280-b993-2495950f71cd
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The data comprise measurements of the impact of two prescribed annual burnings on the ecological properties of an invasion gradient by Urochloa decumbens in a tropical savanna (Cerrado). The ecological properties measured before (2019) and after the experiment (2021) were the abundance of invasive species, illuminance, air temperature, air humidity, specific leaf area, species richness, species diversity, vegetation cover, biomass, decomposition rate and carbon efflux.

The two experimental areas were located within two reserves in Southeast and Central Brazil: Estação Ecológica de Itirapina in the municipalities of Brotas and Itirapina in São Paulo State, and Parque Nacional de Brasília in the Distrito Federal.

Data were collected during multiple field excursions between March 2019 and September 2021.
Publication date: 2025-08-26
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rdata

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2019-03-01    to    2021-09-30

Provenance & quality

Data were collected in the field and digitized. Material sampled in the field that required any type of further manipulation or processing was brought to the Laboratório de Ecologia Vegetal da Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). If further processing was required (dependant on material type), this was recorded and can be found in the data (.Rdata file).

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Damasceno, G.; Fidelis, A. (2025). Plant biodiversity and associated environmental data along an invasion gradient of Urochloa decumbens following prescribed burnings in a tropical savanna, Cerrado region, Brazil, 2019-2021 v2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/15d26e24-345a-4280-b993-2495950f71cd

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Correspondence/contact details

Gabriella Damasceno
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
 fariadamasceno@gmail.com

Authors

Damasceno, G.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5103-484X
Fidelis, A.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9545-2285

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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

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Topic categories
biota
Keywords
air humidity , air temperature , Biodiversity , biomass , carbon efflux , Cerrado , decomposition rate , illuminance , invasive alien species , invasive grasses , Invasive species , prescribed fires , species diversity , species richness , specific leaf area , tropical savanna , vegetation cover
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S011641/1
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP Award: Grants 2018/09054-0, 2018/09054-0, 2015/06743-0 & 2018/14995-8
Neotropical Grassland Conservancy