Forest plant distribution and environmental data in the western Swiss Alps

• Main Authors: Meier, Sylvain, Scherrer, Daniel, Massy, Stephanie, Vittoz, Pascal, Guisan, Antoine
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dryad Digital Repository 2018
• Subjects: vegetation plots; species distribution models; community models; S-SDM; species richness modelling; Alps of Canton de Vaud; Western Swiss Alps; Switzerland; Holocene/Anthropocene; Abies alba; Acer campestre; Acer opalus; Acer platanoides; Acer pseudoplatanus; Achillea macrophylla; Aconitum lycoctonum aggr; Aconitum napellus aggr; Aconitum paniculatum; Actaea spicata; Adenostyles alliariae; Adenostyles glabra; Adoxa moschatellina; Aegopodium podagraria; Agrostis capillaris; Ajuga reptans; Allium ursinum; Alnus incana; Alnus viridis; Amelanchier embergeri; Anemone nemorosa; Angelica sylvestris; Anthericum ramosum; Anthriscus nitida; Anthriscus sylvestris; Aposeris foetida; Aquilegia atrata; Aquilegia vulgaris; Arabis hirsuta; Arabis turrita; Arnica montana; Arum maculatum; Aruncus dioicus; Asplenium fontanum; Asplenium trichomanes; Asplenium viride; Aster bellidiastrum; Astrantia major; Astrantia minor; Athyrium filix femina; Berberis vulgaris; Betula pendula; Blechnum spicant; Brachypodium pinnatum; Briza media; Bromus benekenii; Calamagrostis varia; Caltha palustris; Campanula barbata; Campanula cochleariifolia; Campanula rhomboidalis; Campanula rotundifolia; Campanula trachelium; Cardamine heptaphylla; Cardamine impatiens; Cardamine pentaphyllos; Carduus defloratus; Carduus personata; Carex alba; Carex digitata; Carex ferruginea; Carex flacca; Carex humilis; Carex montana; Carex ornithopoda; Carex pallescens; Carex sylvatica; Carlina simplex; Carpinus betulus; Castanea sativa; Centaurea montana; Cephalanthera damasonium; Cephalanthera longifolia; Cephalanthera rubra; Chrysosplenium alternifolium; Cicerbita alpina; Circaea lutetiana; Cirsium oleraceum; Clematis vitalba; Clinopodium vulgare; Colchicum autumnale; Convallaria majalis; Cornus mas; Cornus sanguinea; Coronilla vaginalis; Corylus avellana; Cotoneaster integerrimus; Cotoneaster tomentosus; Crepis paludosa; Crepis pyrenaica; Cystopteris fragilis; Dactylis glomerata; Dactylorhiza maculata; Daphne laureola; Daphne mezereum; Deschampsia cespitosa; Digitalis lutea; Dryopteris carthusiana; Dryopteris dilatata; Dryopteris filix mas; Dryopteris oreades; Elymus caninus; Epilobium alpestre; Epilobium angustifolium; Epilobium montanum; Epipactis atrorubens; Epipactis helleborine; Equisetum arvense; Equisetum sylvaticum; Erica carnea; Euonymus europaeus; Eupatorium cannabinum; Euphorbia amygdaloides; Euphorbia cyparissias; Euphorbia dulcis; Fagus sylvatica; Festuca altissima; Festuca heterophylla; Filipendula ulmaria; Fragaria vesca; Fraxinus excelsior; Galeopsis tetrahit; Galium aparine; Galium mollugo; Galium odoratum; Galium pumilum; Galium rotundifolium; Gentiana asclepiadea; Gentiana lutea; Gentiana purpurea; Geranium sanguineum; Geranium sylvaticum; Geum rivale; Geum urbanum; Glechoma hederacea; Globularia nudicaulis; Gymnadenia conopsea aggr; Gymnocarpium dryopteris; Gymnocarpium robertianum; Hedera helix; Helleborus foetidus; Hepatica nobilis; Heracleum sphondylium aggr; Hieracium prenanthoides; Hieracium vogesiacum; Hippocrepis emerus; Homogyne alpina; Hordelymus europaeus; Hypericum maculatum; Hypericum montanum; Ilex aquifolium; Impatiens noli tangere; Juglans regia; Juniperus communis; Juniperus nana; Knautia dipsacifolia; Laburnum alpinum; Lamium montanum; Lamium purpureum; Larix decidua; Laserpitium latifolium; Lathyrus pratensis; Lathyrus vernus; Leucanthemum vulgare aggr; Ligusticum mutellina; Ligustrum vulgare; Lilium martagon; Listera cordata; Listera ovata; Lonicera alpigena; Lonicera caerulea; Lonicera nigra; Lonicera xylosteum; Lotus corniculatus; Lunaria rediviva; Luzula luzulina; Luzula nivea; Luzula pilosa; Luzula sylvatica; Lycopodium annotinum; Lysimachia nemorum; Maianthemum bifolium; Malus sylvestris; Melampyrum sylvaticum; Melica nutans; Melica uniflora; Melittis melissophyllum; Mercurialis perennis; Milium effusum; Moehringia muscosa; Mycelis muralis; Myosotis scorpioides; Myosotis sylvatica; Myrrhis odorata; Nardus stricta; Neottia nidus avis; Orchis mascula; Oreopteris limbosperma; Origanum vulgare; Orthilia secunda; Oxalis acetosella; Paris quadrifolia; Petasites albus; Petasites hybridus; Peucedanum ostruthium; Phegopteris connectilis; Phyllitis scolopendrium; Phyteuma orbiculare; Phyteuma spicatum; Picea abies; Pimpinella major aggr; Pinus sylvestris aggr; Pinus uncinata; Platanthera bifolia; Poa nemoralis; Polygala chamaebuxus; Polygonatum multiflorum; Polygonatum odoratum; Polygonatum verticillatum; Polygonum bistorta; Polygonum viviparum; Polypodium vulgare; Polystichum aculeatum; Polystichum lonchitis; Populus tremula; Potentilla erecta; Potentilla sterilis; Prenanthes purpurea; Primula acaulis; Primula elatior; Prunella grandiflora; Prunella vulgaris; Prunus avium; Prunus spinosa; Pteridium aquilinum; Pulmonaria officinalis; Pulsatilla alpina; Quercus petraea; Quercus robur; Ranunculus aconitifolius; Ranunculus auricomus aggr; Ranunculus lanuginosus; Ranunculus platanifolius; Rhamnus alpina; Rhamnus cathartica; Rhododendron ferrugineum; Ribes alpinum; Ribes petraeum; Rosa arvensis; Rosa corymbifera; Rosa pendulina; Rubus caesius; Rubus idaeus; Rubus saxatilis; Rumex alpestris; Salix appendiculata; Salix caprea; Salvia glutinosa; Sambucus nigra; Sambucus racemosa; Sanicula europaea; Saxifraga cuneifolia; Saxifraga paniculata; Saxifraga rotundifolia; Scabiosa columbaria; Scrophularia nodosa; Senecio ovatus; Sesleria caerulea; Silene dioica; Solanum dulcamara; Soldanella alpina; Sorbus aria; Sorbus aucuparia; Sorbus chamaemespilus; Sorbus mougeotii; Stachys alpina; Stachys officinalis; Stachys sylvatica; Stellaria nemorum; Streptopus amplexifolius; Tamus communis; Taraxacum officinale; Taxus baccata; Teucrium chamaedrys; Thalictrum aquilegiifolium; Thesium alpinum; Thymus pulegioides; Tilia cordata; Tilia platyphyllos; Tofieldia calyculata; Trifolium pratense; Trollius europaeus; Tussilago farfara; Ulmus glabra; Urtica dioica aggr; Vaccinium myrtillus; Vaccinium vitis idaea aggr; Valeriana dioica; Valeriana montana; Valeriana tripteris; Veratrum lobelianum; Veronica chamaedrys; Veronica officinalis; Veronica urticifolia; Viburnum lantana; Viburnum opulus; Vicia sepium aggr; Vicia sylvatica; Vincetoxicum hirundinaria; Viola biflora; Viola hirta; Viola reichenbachiana; Malus; Nivea; Rhamnus; Ribes
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nf925ps/1; https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.nf925ps/1

Plant species (presence-absence records) and environmental data for each of the 3076 forest plots. The Scherrer et al. (2018, Methods in Ecology and Evolution) paper uses the associated Dryas dataset of plant species distribution data and environmental predictors to compare a number of thresholding methods for stacked species distribution models (S-SDMs) and how to best evaluate them with an appropriate cross-validation framework. Subsets of these data have also been used in previous works by the same research group: Scherrer et al. (2017, Diversity and Distributions) and others (see full publication list under http://www.unil.ch/ecospat).