Environmental Data: Greater observer expertise leads to higher liverwo...

Keywords:
BIODIVERSITY MONITORING
COVER
FEN
LIVERWORTS
MOSSES
OBSERVER BIAS
RAISED BOG
SPHAGNUM
VEGETATION SURVEY

Description

This dataset contains bryophyte species count data and information about the observers bryophyte expertise for 2950 relevés conducted from 2011 to 2023 on ...

Citation

Moser, T., Boch, S., Bedolla, A., Ecker, K. T., Graf, U. H., Holderegger, R., Küchler, H., Pichon, N. A., Bergamini, A. (2025). Greater observer expertise leads to higher liverwort species richness in bryophyte surveys. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.683.

Resources

  • Releve data

    The CSV file contains all releves considered in the mentioned study. The columns include plot identification, survey period, survey year, habitat category of the surveyed object, vegetation type of the plot, anonymized identification of the observer, observer expertise category, the observers survey experience, scaled mean indicator values (i.e., light, nutrients, reaction, temperature and wetness), counts for the four groups (all species, liverworts, mosses exkl. Sphagnum spp. and Sphagnum spp.), the size categories (small, medium, large) and the modified cover classes (NA, r, +, 1, 2, 3-5).

    Releve data