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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

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https://doi.org/10.5285/8d3d252c-8fa2-493e-ba8e-ebae9fee4f99
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: 2023-04-04
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Format

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 was 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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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:
Damasceno, G.; Fidelis, A. (2023). 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. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/8d3d252c-8fa2-493e-ba8e-ebae9fee4f99

Citations

Lambin, X., Burslem, D., Caplat, P., et al. (2020) CONTAIN: Optimising the long-term management of invasive alien species using adaptive management. NeoBiota 59, 119–138. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.59.52022

Correspondence/contact details

Gabriella Damasceno
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro
São Paulo
BRAZIL
 fariadamasceno@gmail.com

Authors

Damasceno, G.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Fidelis, A.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

Other contacts

Rights holder
Universidade Estadual Paulista
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
biota
Keywords
air temperature , atmospheric humidity , biological diversity , biomass , Brotas , carbon , carbon efflux , Cerrado , decomposition , decomposition rate , Distrito Federal , Estação Ecológica de Itirapina , fire , grass , illuminance , invasive alien species , invasive grasses , Itirapina , Parque Nacional de Brasília , prescribed fires , species diversity , species richness , specific leaf area , spreading liverseed grass , tropical ecosystem , tropical savanna , Urochloa decumbens , vegetation cover
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S011641/1
Neotropical Grassland Conservancy
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo Award: Grants 2018/09054-0, 2018/09054-0, 2015/06743-0, 2018/14995-8
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19 April 2024 09:42