Growth form and fruit and flower numbers of plants on Kilimanjaro

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This dataset includes the identities of all fruiting and flowering plants on all study sites sampled for mutualistic interactions (i.e. all except for Hel and Fer). We identified plants to species level, and recorded some general information on size and growth form (e.g. tree, shrub, liana). Additonally, we counted the number of fruits and flowers on each plant individual to estimate crop size.

This data set was collected in the field by Maximilian Vollstädt.Number of fruits =extrapolated in the field. for each fruiting plant individual, representative branches were searched and the number of fruit on these branches counted. then we extrapolated for the entire plant, by multiplicating the average number of fruits for the counted branches over the actual number of branches for the plant.Number of flowers =extrapolated in the field. for each flowering plant individual, representative branches were searched and the number of flowers on these branches counted. then we extrapolated for the entire plant, by multiplicating the average number of flowers for the counted branches over the actual number of branches for the plant.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896246
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.04703
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12606
Related Identifier https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.894721
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.896246
Provenance
Creator Vollstaedt, Maximilian ORCID logo; Schleuning, Matthias (ORCID: 0000-0001-9426-045X); Böhning-Gaese, Katrin ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2018
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 107847609 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/107847609 Kilimanjaro Research Group
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 52632 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (37.240W, -3.390S, 37.680E, -3.080N); Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania