Duckweed Community Competition and Thermal Adaptation Experimental Data

Experimental data from a study testing if competition accelerates thermal adaptation in plant populations. The dataset likely contains measurements from Lemna spp. and Spirodela polyrhiza duckweed communities grown under warming conditions at range edges and cores. It was authored by Amy Angert and harvested from Borealis Dataverse, with a last update timestamp of 2026-04-25.

Use Cases

• Modeling thermal adaptation rates in plant populations based on experimental warming treatments.
• Analyzing the effect of interspecific competition on thermal performance breadth using community-level data.
• Testing hypotheses about shared evolutionary responses to warming and competition mentioned in the abstract.

Strengths

• Data is from a controlled experiment explicitly testing a key ecological hypothesis about competition and adaptation.
• Last updated timestamp is provided (2026-04-25 04:13:31), indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely contains data from a controlled laboratory experiment with duckweed communities under different temperature and competition regimes.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-25 04:13:31