Plant Diversity Drivers Across Elevations on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau dataset comprises 758 vegetation plots used to analyze drivers of plant diversity. It explores how climatic, topographic, and anthropogenic variables influence alpha, beta, and gamma diversity across an elevational gradient. The dataset was authored by Wajid Khan and last updated on May 12, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between annual mean temperature and alpha diversity based on the described analysis.
• Investigating the nonlinear effects of grazing pressure on beta diversity as mentioned in the results.
• Analyzing how aridity index influences gamma diversity through both alpha and beta diversity pathways.
• Studying elevation-dependent shifts in the effects of precipitation seasonality and slope inclination on diversity.

Strengths

• Contains data from 758 vegetation plots, providing a substantial sample size.
• Explicitly analyzes diversity across three scales (alpha, beta, gamma) and multiple environmental drivers.
• Focuses on a specific and ecologically significant region, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is stored in a DOCX file format, which may require extraction to a structured format for analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Sampling of vegetation plots across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Freshness

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

Geography

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau