Data from: The phylogenetics of succession can guide restoration: an example from abandoned mine sites in the subarctic ...
1. Phylogenetic tools have increasingly been used in community ecology to describe evolutionary relationships among co-occurring species. In studies of succession, such tools may allow us to identify evolutionary lineages most suited for particular stages of succession and habitat rehabilitation. Ho...
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Dryad
2015
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qt30h https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.qt30h |
| Summary: | 1. Phylogenetic tools have increasingly been used in community ecology to describe evolutionary relationships among co-occurring species. In studies of succession, such tools may allow us to identify evolutionary lineages most suited for particular stages of succession and habitat rehabilitation. However, to date these two applications have been largely separate. Here, we suggest that information on phylogenetic community structure might help inform community restoration strategies following major disturbance. 2. Our study examined phylogenetic patterns of succession based on a chronosequence of three abandoned subarctic mine spoil heaps (waste piles) dating from the early 1970s, mid-1970s and early 1980s. The vegetation at each mine site was compared to the surrounding vegetation and community structure on mines was explored assuming species pools at nested spatial scales. 3. We found that the adjacent vegetation was more phylogenetically clustered than the vegetation on the mines, with mines demonstrating ... : Schefferville Mines: Gagnon mine and surrounding vegetation floraSite by species matrix of species found on and around the Gagnon mine in Schefferville, Quebec, Canada. This data was collected in the field. Please see the associated ReadMe file for more information.GagnonCommunityMatrix.csvSchefferville Mines: Retty mine and surrounding vegetation floraSite by species matrix of species found on and around the Retty mine in Schefferville, Quebec, Canada. This data was collected in the field. Please see the associated ReadMe file for more information.RettyCommunityMatrix.csvSchefferville Mines: Timmins mine and surrounding vegetation floraSite by species matrix of species found on and around the Timmins mine in Schefferville, Quebec, Canada. This data was collected in the field. Please see the associated ReadMe file for more information.TimminsCommunityMatrix.csv ... |
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