BIOFRAG - a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation.

ABSTRACT: Habitat fragmentation studies have produced complex results that are challenging to synthesize. Inconsistencies among studies may result from variation in the choice of landscape metrics and response variables, which is often compounded by a lack of key statistical or methodological information. Collating primary datasets on biodiversity responses to fragmentation in a consistent and flexible database permits simple data retrieval for subsequent analyses. We present a relational database that links such field data to taxonomic nomenclature, spatial and temporal plot attributes, and environmental characteristics. Field assessments include measurements of the response(s) (e.g., presence, abundance, ground cover) of one or more species linked to plots in fragments within a partially forested

SUBMITTER: Pfeifer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4063456 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature