Forest Biodiversity and Soil Carbon Data Across Climate Gradients

639.7 KB of data from a study on how tree diversity affects soil organic carbon under varying climate conditions. The dataset includes plot-level biodiversity indices, soil measurements, and environmental variables like temperature and aridity. HaoRu Yan published this data on figshare in 2026 under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil organic carbon (SOC) based on tree species richness and functional diversity indices.
• Analyzing how climate variables like mean annual temperature and aridity index moderate biodiversity-soil carbon relationships.
• Training machine learning models to predict soil bulk density (SBD) from community-weighted mean (CWM) traits.
• Investigating the correlation between functional dispersion (FDis) and soil carbon across different forest sites.

Strengths

• Includes multiple biodiversity metrics (hill0, hill1, hill2, FD, FDis) for ecological analysis.
• Links plot-level soil data (SOC, SBD) to site-level climate variables (temperature, aridity index).
• Data is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Data was derived from ForestGEO, with climate data from WorldClim.

Collection Method

Likely collected from forest plot surveys and aggregated from public sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-12 05:27:03; freshness should be verified.