Environmental Data: Wetlands of the canton of Zürich (Switzerland): Da...

Wetlands of the canton of Zürich (Switzerland): Data on species richness and recent and historic area and connectivity of 55 fens.

The data provided in the Excel sheet contain the following information for 55 wetlands of the canton of Zürich (Switzerland): -Species richness data for vascular plants and bryophytes classified as follows: (1) all vascular plant species; (2) wetlands specialists among vascular plants; (3) generalists, which were all non-specialist vascular plant species; (4) short-lived vascular plant specialists; (5) long-lived vascular plant specialists; (6) short-lived vascular plant generalists; (7) long-lived vascular plant generalists; (8) bryophyte species. -Area of all wetlands in 1850, 1900, 1950 and 2000 -Wetland area within buffers with 2km radius with the center of the wetland as starting point -Mean indicator values according to Landolt et al. (2010) and the standard deviation of these indicator values based on presence-absence data of vascular plants. Indicator values for temperature, light availability, moisture, acidity, nutrients, amount of humus and soil aeration were considered.