OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany|German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany|University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- 2. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany|German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany|Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
- 3. Department of Botany, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, United States of America
- 4. Department of Botany, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, United States of America|Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, United States of America
- 5. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Hilo, United States of America
- 6. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
- 7. Department of Biology, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, United States of America
- 8. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
- 9. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany|Department of Computer Science, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany
Description
This data paper provides a description of OpenNahele, the open Hawaiian forest plot database. OpenNahele includes 530 forest plots across the Hawaiian archipelago containing 43,590 individuals of 185 native and alien tree, shrub and tree fern species across six islands. We include estimates of maximum plant size (D950.1 and Dmax3) for 58 woody plant species, a key functional trait associated with dispersal distance and competition for light. OpenNahele can serve as a platform to test key ecological, evolutionary and conservation questions in a hotspot archipelago.
OpenNahele is the first database that compiles data from a large number of forest plots across the Hawaiian archipelago to allow broad and high resolution studies of biodiversity patterns.
Keywords: Hawaii, forests, islands, biodiversity, community ecology, evolutionary ecology
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