Data from: Ornithogenic vegetation: How significant has the seabird influence been on the Aleutian Island vegetation during the Holocene? ...

• Main Authors: Smyshlyaeva, Olesya, Severova, Elena, Krylovich, Olga, Kuzmicheva, Evgeniya, Savinetsky, Arkady, West, Dixie, Hatfield, Virginia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2021
• Subjects: FOS Natural sciences; Guano; McDonald Point; Near Islands; Shemya Island; Aleutian Island; Tundra; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0rxwdbs1f; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.0rxwdbs1f

In the Aleutian Islands during the Holocene, terrestrial predators were actually absent; as a result, large seabird colonies thrived along the coasts or across entire islands. Bird guano enriches the soil with nitrogen, which can lead to the formation of highly modified ornithogenic (bird-formed) ec...