Compiled long-term community composition datasets of primary producers and consumers in both freshwater and terrestrial communities

This data package consists of two files to study long-term changes in communities across a range of systems (freshwater and terrestrial) and organism types (from short-lived (sub annual) to long-lived species) that are both primary producers and consumers. We compiled many datasets from publicly ava...

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Main Authors: Scott Collins, Meghan Avolio, Corinna Gries, Lauren Hallett, Sally Koerner, Kimberly La Pierre, Andrew Rypel, Eric Sokol, Samuel Fey, Dan Flynn, Sydney Jones, Laura Ladwig, Julie Ripplinger, Matt Jones
Format: Dataset
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Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2018
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Online Access:https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/15/5
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Summary:This data package consists of two files to study long-term changes in communities across a range of systems (freshwater and terrestrial) and organism types (from short-lived (sub annual) to long-lived species) that are both primary producers and consumers. We compiled many datasets from publicly available archives (41 datasets are from 14 LTER sites). All datasets must have had a measure of species level abundance to calculate more derived community ecological metrics beyond species richness. These data can be used to study community dynamics over space and time.