New Zealand Bark Thickness 2015

We measured the bark thickness of 82 New Zealand tree species and tested whether variation in bark thickness was related to variation in other plant traits and whether community-weighted mean bark thickness varied along national-scale gradients of soil fertility and climate.

The data support this article: Richardson SJ, Laughlin DC, Lawes MJ, Holdaway RJ, Wilmshurst JM, Wright M, Curran TJ, Bellingham PJ, McGlone MS. Functional and environmental determinants of bark thickness in fire-free temperate rain forest communities. American Journal of Botany 102 (10): 1590-1598. (http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1500157)

These resources (data files) represent snapshots of data extracted from the National Vegetation Databank (NVS) for analysis supporting this manuscript. NVS is a living database, and data are subject to error correction and other amendments over time. The most current version of these data can be requested via the NVS website by searching for the dataset “NZICMS: Main 2002-2007”.

Data and Resources

Combined bark thickness data (inc metadata)XLSX
Excel file containing separate worksheets of each of the data reqources, and a metadata sheet with field definitions.
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Bark Thickness DataTSV
Species name, stem diameter and mean bark thickness for all individuals
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Plant trait dataTSV
Species name, LMA, stem tissue density, ramiflory or cauliflory, and group (conifer or angiosperm, evergreen or deciduous)
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Basal area data from forest plotsTSV
Basal area by species for an objective sample of forest plots (the LUCAS plot network) and the proportion of plot level basal area for each species on each plot
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Environment data for forest plotsTSV
Two climate variables and two soil fertility variables for each forest plot, all scaled to a mean of zero for modelling
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MetadataTSV
Field descriptions for the data files
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Theme
Author	Richardson, Sarah J. & Laughlin, Daniel C. & Lawes, Mike & Holdaway, Robert J. & Wilmshurst, Janet & Wright, Monique & Curran, Tim & Bellingham, Peter J. & McGlone, Matt
Maintainer	Sarah Richardson
Maintainer Email	Sarah Richardson
Source
Source Created	Unknown
Source Modified	Unknown
Language	English
Spatial
Source Identifier	https://datastore.landcareresearch.co.nz/dataset/a5b2f2c6-99e4-4a5b-96c5-a15f994e1eaf