Rare Plant Counts from Herbivore Exclusion Study at Ash Meadows Refuge

Datasets and scripts support the manuscript 'Right-Sized Evidence: Herbivore Exclusion Boosts Endemic Desert Plants' for Conservation Science and Practice. The data include counts of several species of rare plants collected at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. The dataset was published by the Department of the Interior and last updated on 2026-04-14.

Use Cases

• Modeling the effect of herbivore exclusion on plant abundance based on species count data.
• Analyzing population trends for rare desert plant species based on field observations.
• Supporting conservation management decisions with empirical evidence from a national wildlife refuge.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed manuscript in Conservation Science and Practice.
• Focuses on rare plant species in a specific, protected geographic area (Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge).
• Last updated on 2026-04-14, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are 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

Department of the Interior

Collection Method

Likely contains field observation data from herbivore exclusion experiments.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 16:44:16.654485.

Geography

Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge