Impacts of cattle grazing and fire on old-growth grasslands plant communities in the Brazilian Cerrado, 2022

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The data contains variables related to the diversity and structure of plant communities of cattle-grazed and burned old-growth grasslands and ungrazed and unburned old-growth grasslands located in the northern region of the Cerrado, specifically in the municipality of São Félix do Tocantins, state of Tocantins, Brazil, collected in March and April 2022.
Data were collected in 100 plots of 1-m² distributed over ten old-growth grasslands (10 plots per site), of which five were grazed and burned and five ungrazed and unburned.

Publication date: 2023-01-27

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Tabular (text)

Spatial reference system

WGS 84

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Temporal extent

2022-03-01 to 2022-04-30

Provenance & quality

Data were collected in the field by 4 experts in March and April 2022. The aboveground vegetation biomass data involved the collection, transport, drying (using a forced air oven at 80°C for 48 hours), and weighing of material (using an electronic scale with 0.1-milligram precision).

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Cava, M.; Damasceno, G.; García Díaz, P.; Fidelis, A. (2023). Impacts of cattle grazing and fire on old-growth grasslands plant communities in the Brazilian Cerrado, 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/d83e0c7d-ea49-4cf9-a002-c31cc3bbfe80

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