Dry Forest Restoration Data from Bonaire, 15-Year Experiments

M. Holmgren's dataset supports the 2026 Journal of Applied Ecology paper 'Strategies for Dry Forest Recovery: Fifteen years of Caribbean experimentation across scales'. The data originates from three restoration projects conducted on the island of Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean. It was last updated on 2026-05-26.

Use Cases

• Modeling forest recovery trajectories based on long-term experimental data.
• Comparing the effectiveness of different restoration strategies mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing ecological outcomes of interventions across multiple spatial scales.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication in Journal of Applied Ecology.
• Covers a 15-year experimental time span for longitudinal analysis.
• Focuses on a specific and ecologically important region: the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

M. Holmgren, DANS Data Station Life Sciences Collection

Collection Method

Data collected from three dry forest restoration projects.

Time Range

Likely covers a 15-year period based on the paper title.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 05:10:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean.