Novel land uses shape meta-community structures in neighbouring native forests: Dataset across Uruguay

Ina Säumel; Leonardo R Ramírez

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108267

Novel land uses shape meta-community structures in neighbouring native forests: Dataset across Uruguay

Data Brief. 2022 May 16:42:108267. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108267. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Ina Säumel¹, Leonardo R Ramírez¹

Affiliation

¹ Integrative Research Institute THESys Transformation of Human-Environment-Systems Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin 10099, Germany.

Abstract

The presented datasets relate to the research article entitled "Native forest meta-community structures in Uruguay shaped by novel land use types in their surroundings" [Ramírez and Säumel; Ecology and Evolution, 2022]. The datasets include field survey data on woody species presence and absence from 384 plots at 32 permanent monitoring sites of native forests across the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (South America). We compiled different methods from meta-community studies, remote sensing and landscape ecology to explore how woody species communities are influenced by land use change from local to regional scale. We describe the diverse woody species composition in native forests across Uruguay and structure of metacommunities of woody species. Data on woody species diversity inform landscape planning, land-use management, policy and governance and can be used for further meta-analysis with other local, regional or global data sets.

Keywords: Campos region; Clementsian structure; Dispersal limitation; Landscape configuration; Nestedness; Spacial heterogeneity; Species turnover.