Data from: Edge influence on vegetation at natural and anthropogenic edges of boreal forests in Canada and Fennoscandia ...

• Main Authors: Harper, Karen A., Macdonald, S. Ellen, Mayerhofer, Michael S., Biswas, Shekhar R., Esseen, Per-Anders, Hylander, Kristoffer, Stewart, Katherine J., Mallik, Azim U., Drapeau, Pierre, Jonsson, Bengt-Gunnar, Lesieur, Daniel, Kouki, Jari, Bergeron, Yves
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2015
• Subjects: edge effects; lakeshore edges; cut edges; fire edges; wetland edges; randomization tests; habitat fragmentation; Canada; Deadwood; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7fd7p; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.7fd7p

1. Although anthropogenic edges are an important consequence of timber harvesting, edges due to natural disturbances or landscape heterogeneity are also common. Forest edges have been well-studied in temperate and tropical forests, but less so in less productive, disturbance-adapted boreal forests. 2. We synthesized data on forest vegetation at edges of boreal forests and compared edge influence among edge types (fire, cut, lake/wetland; old vs. young), forest types (broadleaf vs. coniferous) and geographic regions. Our objectives were to quantify vegetation responses at edges of all types and to compare the strength and extent of edge influence among different types of edges and forests. 3. Research was conducted using the same general sampling design in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and in Sweden and Finland. We conducted a meta-analysis for a variety of response variables including forest structure, deadwood abundance, regeneration, understorey abundance and diversity, and nonvascular plant ... : Data for meta-analysis and synthesis of boreal edgesData from each study is on a separate page, labelled with the study area and study number. Please see the article Table 2. On each page, data are at different distances from the edge along transects for different response variables. Please see the article Table S1 for details on sampling and data collection.Boreal edges data for Dryad.xls ...