Plant Biodiversity Change Across Scales from Climate Warming Experiments

Datasets on log response ratios of species richness and effective number of species at local, turnover, and site scales. The data, authored by Lotte Korell and last updated in April 2026, includes partitioned compositional indices and covariates such as temperature, treatment duration, and study location characteristics.

Use Cases

• Modeling scale-dependent biodiversity responses based on log response ratios at plot and site scales.
• Analyzing compositional change components based on partitioned Sørensen and Bray–Curtis indices.
• Investigating the influence of experimental covariates like temperature manipulation magnitude and treatment duration.
• Studying geographic patterns in warming experiment outcomes based on latitude and longitude coordinates.

Strengths

• Includes multiple biodiversity metrics (species richness, effective species number, beta-diversity components) for analysis.
• Contains key experimental covariates like temperature of the warmest quarter and treatment duration in years.
• Data is structured at three ecological scales: local plot, turnover between plots, and site (gamma) level.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from published climate warming experiments.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 09:17:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, as indicated by latitude and longitude coordinates for experiments.