Mesquite Pod Metabolite Profiles with Spatial and Environmental Data from Mexico

Spatial, environmental, morphological, and phytochemical profiles of secondary metabolites extracted from mesquite pods (Neltuma spp.) in semiarid regions of Mexico. The dataset, published in the journal Ecologies, is provided as a 6.4 KB CSV file. It was authored by Alfredo Esparza-Orozco and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling secondary metabolite diversity based on environmental variables like elevation and vegetation index.
• Mapping the geographic distribution of specific chemical compound families (e.g., Alkaloids, Flavonoids) across sampled regions.
• Correlating pod morphological traits (Pod_weight, Pod_size) with phytochemical profiles.
• Analyzing the performance of different extraction methods (UAE, EE) on metabolite yield.

Strengths

• Includes multiple data modalities: spatial coordinates, environmental indices, morphological traits, and detailed phytochemical profiles.
• Data dictionary explicitly lists variables including TreeID, longitude/latitude, and specific metabolite families.
• Published as supplementary information for a peer-reviewed study in Ecologies (MDPI).
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation for some variables (e.g., UAE, EE, Raos_Q) is limited; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 6.4 KB file size suggests a very limited number of observations or a highly sparse dataset.

Provenance

Source

figshare, supplementary data for a study published in Ecologies (MDPI).

Collection Method

Individual observations from sampled mesquite trees across northern and southern semiarid regions of Mexico.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-09 16:41:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Semiarid regions of Mexico.