div_gradient

To examine what aspects of community structure shift along temperate to tropical diversity gradients.

datasets

summary spreadsheet stored at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lRW4AGoSN8T6nL5d0Oht_fXn_REsXPwC2BUMbsEbxwQ/edit

• Gentry dataset
  • http://ecologicaldata.org/wiki/alwyn-h-gentry-forest-transect-dataset-0
  • 0.1 ha sites along a broad latitudinal gradient
  • primiarily in the New World
  • used in orginal Kraft et al and subsequent replies to hash out beta-diversity debate
  • not great for spatial patterns
• Mapped Forest stands
  • Tropical
    • Wet tropical forests (>300 yr old)
      • Sherman - 4 ha - cleaned
      • Cocoli - 4 ha - cleaned
      • BCI - 50 ha - cleaned
    • Luquillo
      • successional wet forest
      • 12.5 ha

    • Korup