Effects of Understory Vegetation on Citrus Pest and Disease Damage

Yang Chu's dataset on figshare contains experimental results measuring pest and disease impacts in young citrus orchards under different ground cover treatments. The data, last updated in April 2026, includes species richness counts and leaf damage metrics for treatments like planted ground cover (PGC) and natural vegetation cover (NVC). It is a 61.0 KB XLSX file released under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Compare pest species richness between different orchard ground cover treatments based on the reported species counts.
• Model the relationship between ground cover type and leaf damage rates from lepidopteran feeding.
• Assess the impact of functional plants on citrus canker incidence as described in the experimental findings.
• Analyze the effectiveness of pest-repellent plants in disrupting pest host-location behavior, a key mechanism suggested by the study.

Strengths

• Includes specific species richness counts (e.g., 5.00 for PGC, 9.00 for PFM).
• Reports statistically significant differences in leaf feeding area and damage rates between treatments.
• Data is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small (61.0 KB), indicating a limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Yang Chu.

Collection Method

Likely contains experimental field data from a study on understory vegetation management.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-11 00:49:26; freshness should be verified.