Partitioning Seed Dispersal Rate Amongst Vertebrates Vs Invertebrates Along a Land-Use Gradient

Description:

Seed perdation and dispersal experiments

Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: Partitioning Seed Dispersal Rate Amongst Vertebrates Vs Invertebrates Along a Land-Use Gradient

XML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here

Data worksheets: There are 1 data worksheets in this dataset:

1. Seed removal experiments (Worksheet Data)

   Dimensions: 904 rows by 13 columns

   Description: Experimental seed removal trials. Each trial consisted of 20 pumpkin seeds being placed on a plate, with seed fates ascertained the following day.

   Fields:

   • Location: SAFE project sample site (Field type: Location)
   • Point : SAFE project sample site (Field type: ID)
   • Date: Date seeds were placed in field (Field type: Date)
   • Treatment: Experimental treatment (Field type: Categorical)
   • NPlacement: Unknown variable (Field type: ID)
   • RemainUneat: How many seeds remained on the plate and had no evidence of having been eaten? (Field type: Numeric)
   • RemovUneat: How many seeds were removed from the plate and had no evidence of having been eaten? (Field type: Numeric)
   • RemainEat: How many seeds remained on the plate but had evidence of having been eaten? (Field type: Numeric)
   • RemovEat: How many seeds were removed from the plate and also had evidence of being eaten? (Field type: Numeric)
   • RemovUnknown: How many seeds were removed from the plate and had an unknown fate? (Field type: Numeric)
   • Rain: How heavily did it rain last night? 0 being no rain and 5 being torrential rain (Field type: Numeric)
   • TreatmentSuccessFail: Was the treatment successful? (Field type: Categorical)
   
   

Date range: 2013-05-07 to 2013-07-27

Latitudinal extent: 4.6350 to 4.7523

Longitudinal extent: 116.9632 to 117.5934