Do early-successional weeds facilitate or compete with seedlings in forest restoration? Disentangling abiotic vs. biotic factors

Arias, Mylen, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Kariyat, Rupesh, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Wahl, Kimberly, United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Mendez, Stephany, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Chavana, Jesus, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Christoffersen, Bradley, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4890-9999

mylen.arias01@utrgv.edu, bradley.christoffersen@utrgv.edu

Published Jul 27, 2021 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c59zw3r7j

Cite this dataset

Arias, Mylen et al. (2021). Do early-successional weeds facilitate or compete with seedlings in forest restoration? Disentangling abiotic vs. biotic factors [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c59zw3r7j

Abstract

Census data for seedlings part of a weed exclusion experiment at Sal del Rey, Texas within a larger field where ~100,000 seedlings were planted in October-November 2018. Records seedling height, vigor (0 - dead, > 0 - alive), branching, and animal damage for 158 individuals of eight species classified by growth habit (fast/slow) and distributed in control and exclusion (mowed) plots across seven censuses.

Methods

See methods of linked manuscript.

Usage notes

Two of the censuses are pre-treatment (census 0 and census 1), and the remainder are after mowing commenced.

A small number of observations (4) were missing data for one of animal damage, branching, or height; these data points are excluded from analyses involving these variables.

Any remaining missing values for animal damage, branching, or height are on dead (vigor = 0) individuals.

Funding

UTRGV College of Sciences