Data of 'Relating plant height to demographic rates and extinction vulnerability'

Abstract

This dataset was developed for our study on plant allometry and extinction vulnerabilities. In this study we gathered plant demographic data from various sources and related this to maximum plant height. We derived allometric relationships with maximum plant height for the intrinsic population growth rate, variance in population growth rate due to environmental stochasticity and the maximum plant density. These relationships were used to relate maximum plant height to the Mean time to extinction and the Probability of extinction. The results of this research will soon be published as ‘Relating plant height to demographic rates and extinction vulnerability’ (forthcoming). In this repository we provide only the processed data from this study because the original data was gathered from existing open access and semi-open access databases. Original data for this project was gathered from the following databases: (1) TRY Plant Trait Database, (2) COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database Version 4.0.1, (3) Biomass allocation and growth data of seeded plants The processed data is stored in two files: - 2017_deJonge_MaximumPlantDensity.csv: This file contains 230 datapoints with maximum plant density (per square meter) and average individual plant mass (grams). A description of the methodology used to obtain the processed data is given in a PDF file called ‘2017_deJonge_Methodology.pdf’. Additionally, a description file called 'description.pdf' is added, which includes the information mentioned above