Environmental Data: Greater observer expertise leads to higher estimat...

Keywords:
BIODIVERSITY MONITORING
COVER
FEN
LIVERWORTS
MOSSES
OBSERVER BIAS
RAISED BOG
SPHAGNUM
Keywords:
BIODIVERSITY MONITORING
COVER
FEN
LIVERWORTS
MOSSES
OBSERVER BIAS
RAISED BOG
SPHAGNUM

Description

This dataset contains bryophyte species count data and information about the observers bryophyte expertise for 2332 relevés conducted from 2011 to 2021 on ...

Citation

Moser, T., Boch, S., Bedolla, A., Ecker, K. T., Graf, U. H., Holderegger, R., Küchler, H., Pichon, N. A., Bergamini, A. (2024). Greater observer expertise leads to higher estimates of bryophyte species richness. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.441.

Resources

  • Releve data

    The CSV file contains all releves considered in the mentioned study. The columns include plot identification, survey period, survey year, habitat category of the surveyed object, vegetation type of the plot, observer expertise category, scaled mean indicator values (i.e., light, nutrients, reaction, temperature and wetness), counts for the four groups (all species, liverworts, mosses exkl. _Sphagnum_ spp. and _Sphagnum_ spp.), the size categories (small, medium, large) and the modified cover classes (NA, r, +, 1, 2, 3-5).

    Releve data