[ecoinfo] COmmunity Analysis Project
Jürgen Dengler
dengler at botanik.uni-hamburg.de
Wed Jan 19 15:05:52 PST 2011
Dear Jena, dear all,
if someone searches vegetation-plot data with certain properties somewhere
on the world, there is, since several months an online metadatabase
available where you can search what you need: the Global Index of
Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD) at www.givd.info.
You cannot download the species and environmental data of the plots
directly from GIVD but you get the URL's of the online databases and the e-
mails of the hosts in the case of offline databases. Specifically for South
Africa, there are presently at least 3 major databases registered in GIVD.
Good luck with your search,
Jürgen
On 19 Jan 2011 at 13:36, Matt Jones wrote:
Weitergel. von: fbha063.FB.FB14.UNI-
HAMBURG at bzf.botanik.uni-hamburg.de
Weitergel. an: fbha063 at uni-hamburg.de
Weiterl.-Datum: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:44:35
Datum: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:36:09 -0900
Von: Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu>
An: David Blankman <dblankman1 at gmail.com>
Kopie an: ecoinfo at ecoinformatics.org, Victoria Goodall
<victoria at saeon.ac.za>,
Jena Portanova <jproad at gmail.com>
Betreff: Re: [ecoinfo] COmmunity Analysis Project
Jena, As David mentioned, there is some plot data on plants in South Africa
and California in the KNB. Each data set is contributed individually there, so
they can be hard to find, but some do exist there.
http://knb.ecoinformatics.org
A more integrated set of plant plot data can be found in the VegBank data
archive, which exposes both plant taxonomy and plot composition data for
over 20000 plant plots. See http://vegbank.org to search for plots and
download the data. I suspect you will mostly find plot data for California -- I
don't know of any plot data for South Africa in there as of yet.
Matt
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:06 PM, David Blankman
<dblankman1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Jena, Your best bet is to search on this web site:
http://knb.ecoinformatics.orgI am also forwarding this to a colleague
in South Africa as well as theecoinformatics list. Also when you say 35
plots are you referring to 35quadrates(sampling entities). Also, when
you say 35attributeswhat do you count as an attribute? Most datasets
that I am familiar with do not have that many attributes.
David -------------------
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Jena Portanova <jproad at gmail.com>
wrote:
Good evening
I' looking for data pertaining to a long term ecological study. I will be
using the data in class to perform some non parametric analysis. My
ideal data set will have 35 plots and 35 attributes. Is it possible to get
an excel file of such data?
I am a Cal Poly Pomona student of Botany in California, US. I have
particular interest in karoo succulents of Aouth Africa and Desert
natives of California. Any data that fits will do.Thank you for any help
you can provide
Jena Portanova
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European Dry Grassland Group (EDGG): http://www.edgg.org
Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): http://www.givd.info
Biodiversity in southern Africa: http://www.biota-africa.org/biotabook/
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