Plant diversity in sedimentary DNA obtained from high-latitude (Siberia) and high-altitude lakes (China) ...

• Main Authors: Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen Rosmarie, Liu, Sisi, Jia, Weihan, Li, Kai, Pestryakova, Luidmila A, Mischke, Steffen, Cao, Xianyong, Li, Xingqi, Ni, Jian, Neuhaus, Stefan, Herzschuh, Ulrike
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Chloroplast DNA; lakes; metabarcoding; Plant diversity; Sedimentary DNA; Tibet Plateau; trnL P6 loop; Vegetation; Event label; Sample ID; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Elevation of event; Sample material; Location; DEPTH, water; pH; Conductivity, electrical; Precipitation, annual mean; Temperature, annual mean; Temperature, air, July; Temperature, air, January; Vegetation type; Species dominance; Species present; Multiple investigations; Ekman grab; Sampling by hand; Water sampler, UWITEC; based on WORLDCLIM data; Metabarcoding; RU-Land_2005_Verkhoyansk; RU-Land_2007_Saskylakh; RU-Land_2008_Kolyma; RU-Land_2009_Lena-transect; RU-Land_2011_Khatanga; RU-Land_2013_Taymyr; RU-Land_2014_Omoloy; RU-Land_2016_Keperveem; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems @ AWI AWI_Envi; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.920866; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.920866

Compilation of environmental data for the 262 investigated localities, which include additional intra-lake localities taken within three large lakes namely: 16-KP-01-L02 (9 samples), 16-KP-03-L10 (5 samples), 16-KP-04-L19 (4 samples). The table includes information about the geographic coordinates, elevation, type of sample material, geographic region, water depth (at which samples were taken), pH, water conductivity, mean annual precipitation (MAP), mean annual temperature (MAP), July and January mean temperature. Annual mean temperature, mean temperature in July and January, and mean annual precipitation were downloaded from WorldClim 2 (www.worldclim.org), and are based on the average climate data for the years 1970–2000 at a spatial resolution of 30 seconds (ca. 1 km^2^). The site-specific climate data was interpolated to the location area by using the R packages raster Hijmans 2020. Hijmans RJ (2020) raster: Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling. R package version 3.1-5. URL: ... : Species dominance: indicates the most frequent species,Species present: species listed in descending order by their distributing area in modern vegetation ...