duneFVG.tr8: Functional Traits of Vascular Plants Data in Northern...

duneFVG.tr8R Documentation

Functional Traits of Vascular Plants Data in Northern Adriatic Dunes

Description

This dataset is a list which contains the functional traits of 71 vascular plant species sampled in 128 16 m^2 squared plots in the Northernn Adriatic Dunes. The species are the ones contained in the dataset duneFVG. See Tordoni et al. (2019) for details.

Usage

data("duneFVG.tr8")

Format

A list which contains 3 objects:

traits.tot

a dataframe which contains 15 functional traits in columns and 71 species as rows. Species correspond to those contained in duneFVG$total.

traits.nat

a dataframe which contains 15 functional traits in columns and 62 species as rows. Species correspond to those contained in duneFVG$native.

traits.ali

a dataframe which contains 15 functional traits in columns and 9 species as rows. Species correspond to those contained in duneFVG$alien.

There are two linked lists to duneFVG.tr8, one with the abundance data of the species (duneFVG) and one with the spatial coordinates of the plots (duneFVG.xy).

Details

The following leaf functional and mechanistic traits were measured: specific leaf area (SLA, mm2 mg-1), major and minor vein length per unit area (VLAmaj VLAmin, mm mm^-2), osmotic potential at full turgor (\pi_0, -MPa), water potential at turgor loss point (\Psitlp, -MPa), N and C content (N % and C %), C and N stable isotope composition (\delta13C per thousand, and \delta15N per thousand) and C to N ratio (C:N).

The following categorical traits associated with phenology and reproductive strategies derived from literature are also included: life form, clonality, photosynthetic pathway, sprouting and flowering time-span.

Source

Tordoni, E., Petruzzellis, F., Nardini, A., Savi, T., Bacaro, G. (2019) Make it simpler: alien species decrease functional diversity of coastal plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30, 498–509.

Examples

data(duneFVG.tr8)

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