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Article, 2024

Plant trait and vegetation data along a 1314 m elevation gradient with fire history in Puna grasslands, Perú

SCIENTIFIC DATA, Volume 11, 1, 10.1038/s41597-024-02980-3

Contributors

Halbritter, Aud H. (Corresponding author) [1] [2] Vandvik, Vigdis 0000-0003-4651-4798 (Corresponding author) [1] [2] Cotner, Sehoya H. [2] Farfan-Rios, William 0000-0002-3196-0317 [3] Maitner, B. S. [4] Michaletz, Sean T. [5] Menor, Imma Oliveras [5] Telford, Richard J. [2] Ccahuana, Adam [6] Cruz, Rudi [6] [7] Sallo-Bravo, Jhonatan [6] Santos-Andrade, Paul Efren [6] Vilca-Bustamante, Lucely L. [6] Castorena, Matiss 0000-0001-6081-9040 [4] Chacon-Labella, Julia [4] Christiansen, Casper T. 0000-0002-4526-614X [7] Duran, Sandra M. [8] [9] Egelkraut, Dagmar D. [1] [2] Gya, Ragnhild 0000-0002-2483-2069 [1] [2] Haugum, Siri 0000-0003-4958-7132 [1] [2] Seltzer, Lorah [5] Silman, Miles [3] Strydom, Tanya 0000-0001-6067-1349 [10] Spiegel, Marcus P. [11] Barros, Agustina [12] [13] Birkeli, Kristine [2] Boakye, Mickey [14] [15] Chiappero, Fernanda [13] Chmurzynski, Adam [4] Garen, Josef C. [5] Gaudard, Joseph [1] [2] Gauthier, Tasha-Leigh J. 0000-0002-1414-0958 [16] Geange, S. R. 0000-0001-5344-7234 [1] [2] Gonzales, Fiorella N. [17] Henn, Jonathan J. 0000-0003-1551-9238 [18] [19] [20] Hoskova, Kristyna 0000-0002-0728-5147 [21] Isaksen, Anders [22] Jessup, Laura 0000-0002-1544-9631 [23] [24] Johnson, Will [25] Kusch, E. 0000-0002-4984-7646 [2] Lepley, Kai [4] Lift, Mackenzie [26] Martyn, Trace E. 0000-0002-3015-484X [26] Mazon, Miguel Munoz [25] Middleton, Sara L. 0000-0001-5307-8029 [11] Casaverde, Natalia L. Quinteros [26] Navarro, Jocelyn 0000-0001-5699-097X [4] Zepeda, Veronica [27] Ocampo-Zuleta, Korina [28] Palomino-Cardenas, Andrea Carmeli [6] Pastor Ploskonka, Samuel [29] Pierfederici, Maria Elisa 0000-0002-6882-6576 [30] Pinelli, Veronica [31] Rickenback, Jess [32] [33] Roos, Ruben E. 0000-0002-1580-6424 [30] [34] Rui, Hilde Stokland [30] Diaz, Eugenia Sanchez [13] Sanchez-Tapia, Andrea 0000-0002-3521-4338 [35] Smith, Alyssa [4] Urquiaga-Flores, Erickson 0000-0002-1221-4116 [36] [37] von Oppen, Jonathan 0000-0001-6346-2964 [38] Enquist, Brian J 0000-0002-6124-7096 (Corresponding author) [4]

Affiliations

  1. [1] Univ Bergen, Bjerknes Ctr Climate Res, Bergen, Norway
    2. [NORA names: Norway; Europe, Non-EU; Nordic; OECD];
  2. [2] Univ Bergen, Bjerknes Ctr Climate Res, Bergen, Norway
    3. [NORA names: Norway; Europe, Non-EU; Nordic; OECD];
  3. [3] Wake Forest Univ, Dept Biol, Winston Salem, NC USA
    4. [NORA names: United States; America, North; OECD];
  4. [4] Univ Arizona, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
    5. [NORA names: United States; America, North; OECD];
  5. [5] Univ British Columbia, Biodivers Res Ctr, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    6. [NORA names: Canada; America, North; OECD];

Abstract

Alpine grassland vegetation supports globally important biodiversity and ecosystems that are increasingly threatened by climate warming and other environmental changes. Trait-based approaches can support understanding of vegetation responses to global change drivers and consequences for ecosystem functioning. In six sites along a 1314 m elevational gradient in Puna grasslands in the Peruvian Andes, we collected datasets on vascular plant composition, plant functional traits, biomass, ecosystem fluxes, and climate data over three years. The data were collected in the wet and dry season and from plots with different fire histories. We selected traits associated with plant resource use, growth, and life history strategies (leaf area, leaf dry/wet mass, leaf thickness, specific leaf area, leaf dry matter content, leaf C, N, P content, C and N isotopes). The trait dataset contains 3,665 plant records from 145 taxa, 54,036 trait measurements (increasing the trait data coverage of the regional flora by 420%) covering 14 traits and 121 plant taxa (ca. 40% of which have no previous publicly available trait data) across 33 families.

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