Response diversity and functional redundancy of plant communities under land use intensification across 18 land use intensity gradients

Description

This dataset contains the correlation coefficients between land use intensity and response diversity (r.FDis) or functional redundancy (r.nbsp) across 18 land use intensity gradients from nine countries and five biomes.

Usage

data(lui)

Format

A data frame with 18 observations on the following 4 variables.

label

the labels for each study

r.FDis

a numeric vector containing the correlation coefficients between land use intensity and response diversity for each land use intensity gradient

r.nbsp

a numeric vector containing the correlation coefficients between land use intensity and functional redundancy for each land use intensity gradient

n

a numeric vector containing the sample sizes used for each study

Source

Laliberté, E., Wells J., DeClerck F., Metcalfe D.J., Catterall C.P., Queiroz C., Aubin I., Bonser S.P., Ding Y., Fraterrigo J.M., McNamara S., Morgan J.W., Sanchez-Merlos D, Vesk PA and Mayfield MM. 2009. Land use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities. Ecology Letters in press.

Results