Case study data of the paper: A methodological guide to observe local-scale geodiversity for biodiversity research and management ...

• Main Authors: Hjort, Jan, Tukiainen, Helena, Salminen, Henriikka, Kemppinen, Julia, Kiilunen, Petteri, Snåre, Henna, Alahuhta, Janne, Maliniemi, Tuija
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2022
• Subjects: Abiotic diversity; geodiversity; georichness; environmental heterogeneity; tundra species richness; plot scale geodiversity; local geodiversity; tundra vascular plants; FOS: Biological sciences; Arctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n02v6wx0h; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.n02v6wx0h

Current global environmental change calls for comprehensive and complementing approaches for biodiversity conservation. According to recent research, consideration of the diversity of Earth’s abiotic features (i.e., geodiversity) could provide new insights and applications into the investigation and management of biodiversity. However, methods to map and quantify geodiversity at local scale have not been developed although this scale is important for conservation planning. Here, we introduce a field methodology for observing plot-scale geodiversity, pilot the method in an Arctic-alpine tundra environment, provide empirical evidence on the plot-scale biodiversity-geodiversity relationship and give guidance for practitioners on the implementation of the method. The field method is based on observation of geofeatures, i.e., elements of geology, geomorphology, and hydrology, from a given area surrounding a location of species observations. As a result, the method provides novel information on the variation of ... : See LOCAL_GEO_README See Hjort et al. (2022), A methodological guide to observe local-scale geodiversity for biodiversity research and management, Journal of Applied Ecology ...