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Master spatial file for for Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora (Thornhill et al. BMC Biology)

Cite this dataset

Thornhill, Andrew et al. (2017). Master spatial file for for Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora (Thornhill et al. BMC Biology) [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.6078/D1KX0V

Abstract

Georeferenced locality information for 1083 OTUs assembled from  all Californian native vascular plant records from herbarium specimens obtained from five different online sources in August 2015: (1) the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/), (2) the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria (http://www.pnwherbaria.org), (3) Australia’s Virtual Herbarium (avh.chah.org.au), (4) Canadensys (http://www.canadensys.net), and (5) the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (http://www.gbif.org). Data were carefully cleaned as described in Baldwin et al. 2017, and combined into OTUs as described in Thornhill et al. 2017. For some OTUs, additional records could be added that were identified only to genus in the dataset used by Baldwin et al. 2017; the final data set contains 1,395,079 occurrences.

Usage notes

The full spatial data set used in: A.H. Thornhill, B.G. Baldwin, W.A. Freyman, S. Nosratinia, M.M. Kling, N. Morueta-Holme, T.P Madsen, D.D. Ackerly, and B.D. Mishler.  2017. Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora.  BMC Biology 15:96.

Based on the species-level spatial data set of Baldwin, B.G., A.H. Thornhill, W.A. Freyman, D.D. Ackerly, M.M. Kling, N. Morueta-Holme, and B.D. Mishler. 2017. Species richness and endemism in the native flora of California. American Journal of Botany. 104: 487–501. http://www.amjbot.org/content/104/3/487.full  Data deposited at: https://doi.org/10.6078/D16K5W

Use with the other Thornhill et al. (2017) data sets linked below.

Funding

National Science Foundation, Award: DEB-1354552