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Twenty years of Salix height in response to experimental manipulation of browsing and water table, northern range of Yellowstone National Park

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Colorado State University

Description

This respository contains multiple datasets collected during a 20 year investigation of the responses of willow (Salix spp.) communities in Yellowstone National Park after the restoration of large carnivores.  The study sought to understand whether the restoration of wolves to the food web cause a change in the state of willow communities that occured while wolves were absent. Each dataset has a corresonding file of metadata. 

Notes

The data could be process further with almost any program, but we used R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23) (R Core Team, 2022. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation forStatistical Computing, Vienna, Austria) and the following packages:

[1] "cowplot"    "gridExtra"  "bayesplot"  "HDInterval"
 [5] "MCMCvis"    "rjags"      "doParallel" "iterators"
 [9] "foreach"    "dclone"     "Matrix"     "parallel"  
[13] "coda"       "forcats"    "stringr"    "dplyr"     
[17] "purrr"      "readr"      "tidyr"      "tibble"    
[21] "ggplot2"    "tidyverse"  "stats"      "graphics"  
[25] "grDevices"  "utils"      "datasets"   "methods"   
[29] "base" 

All of these programs are open-source

Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62
Award Number: 1655035

Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62
Award Number: 1147369

Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62
Award Number: 0717367

Methods

Sampling and experimental designs and methods used to collect the data were described in

  • Hobbs, N. T., D. B. Johnston, K. N. Marshall, E.C. Wolf, and D. J. Cooper. Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore
    ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system. Ecological Monographs.  In press.

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10.5061/dryad.sqv9s4n7n (DOI)