d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:26:49 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Plant census and microenvironment dataset from Mt. Baldy, Colorado, USA, 2014-2017 2020-07-22 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1 10.5285/d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1 doi: Blonder, B., Kapas, R.E., Dalton, R.M., Graae, B.J., Heiling, J.M., Opedal, Ø.H. (2020). Plant census and microenvironment dataset from Mt. Baldy, Colorado, USA, 2014-2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1 The data comprise a long-term study of alpine plant community dynamics in the Gunnison National Forest of Colorado. The data comprise annual census data for all plants (including seedlings) in each of 50 2x2m plots, including information on size, reproduction, life stage, and mortality, with all plants identified and geo-located. These data are also made available transformed to provide individual-level estimates of growth, survival, fecundity, and recruitment. The dataset covers several thousand individuals of approximately twenty species, and highlights an apparent pattern of demographic decline. The data also include information on microenvironment / microedaphic variation at 2 m resolution covering the entire research site, including information on temperatures, topography, soil chemistry, soil texture, and other variables. The data also include information on the functional traits of many of the species present at the site, including information on biomass allocation, leaf traits, root traits, seed traits, and floral traits. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1 Blonder, B. University of Oxford bblonder@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5061-2385 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Kapas, R.E. Norwegian University of Science and Technology kapasroz@hotmail.com author Dalton, R.M. Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory EMAIL NOT PROVIDED author Graae, B.J. Norwegian University of Science and Technology bente.j.graae@ntnu.no author Heiling, J.M. North Carolina State University jacob.michael.heiling@gmail.com author Opedal, Ø.H. Norwegian University of Science and Technology oystein.opedal@biol.lu.se author Blonder, B. University of Oxford bblonder@gmail.com pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher plant community plant biology plant ecology plant physiology plant population GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Environmental survey Gunnison National Forest of Colorado otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Blonder, B., Kapas, R.E., Dalton, R.M., Graae, B.J., Heiling, J.M., Opedal, Ø.H. (2020). Plant census and microenvironment dataset from Mt. Baldy, Colorado, USA, 2014-2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1 grid textTable 100 English utf8 biota environment 2014-01-01 2017-12-31 -107.051 -107.025 38.968 38.992 Comma-separated values (CSV) R Statistical Raster Data (grd/gri) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 In 2014 a set of 50 2x2 m plots were established on primarily bare screefield on a southeast-facing ridgeline on Mt Baldy in the Gunnison National Forest of southwestern Colorado. Annually all individual plants are mapped, permanently tagged, and followed for growth, reproduction, mortality, and recruitment. These data were continued through 2017 in the present dataset. In 2015 several individuals of each species were excavated with roots, harvested, and measured for a range of functional traits. Prior to excavation some additional traits were measured on living individuals. In 2016 iButton dataloggers were deployed on a 2m grid pattern at the site, and soil samples were taken at the same points. Samples were analyzed in a soils lab and used to provide environmental and edaphic information for the site.