DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rxwdbrvp8
title: Greater landscape-scale forest cover and animal-mediated seed dispersal syndromes associate with faster recovery rates in restoring tropical Andean forests

description: Data on recovery rates of woody vegetation in five restoring areas in
 North-Western Ecuador. Datasets include 1) environmental and landscape
 variables, 2) trees measuring &gt; 5 cm dbh [individuals and biomass],
 3) naturally regenerated trees measuring 2-5 cm dbh [individuals, species
 richness, dispersal mode], and 4) woody saplings measuring ≥ 20 cm height
 and &lt; 2 cm dbh [individuals, species richness, dispersal mode]. All
 data recovery values are presented as plot-level rates over time. For
 regenerated trees and saplings, datasets on their dispersal syndromes are
 also available. Environmental data includes elevation, mean annual
 temperature and precipitation extracted from the CHELSA extrapolated
 database. This file also contains land-cover data extracted using Sentinel
 2 on the distance of each forest monitoring plot to a natural forest
 patch, and percentage of landscape-scale natural forest cover.
description: # Greater landscape-scale forest cover and animal-mediated seed dispersal
 syndromes associate with faster recovery rates in restoring tropical
 Andean forests Dataset DOI:
 [10.5061/dryad.rxwdbrvp8](10.5061/dryad.rxwdbrvp8) ## Description of the
 data and file structure Data collected in circular plots measuring 8 m
 radius in Andean montane restoring forests in NW Ecuador. Tree plantation
 efforts took place in 2011 and 2013, and monitoring took place in 2019.
 Trees above 2 cm dbh were measured. Saplings higher than 20 cm and less
 than 2 cm dbh were measured.  ### Files and variables #### File:
 env_landscape_restor_plots.csv **Description:** Environmental and
 landscape attribute variables used in the study. #### File:
 rec_saplings_disp_mode.csv **Description:** Number of individuals in the
 sapling category (20 cm height, &lt; 2 cm dbh) according to their
 dispersal mode: zoochory or other. #### File: rec_saplings_ind_sp.csv
 **Description:** Number of individuals and of species in the sapling
 category (20 cm height, &lt; 2 cm dbh) #### File:
 rec_trees_2to5cm_disp_mode.csv **Description:** Number of individuals in
 the recruited trees ( &gt;2 and &lt; 5 cm dbh) according to their
 dispersal mode: zoochory or other. #### File: rec_trees_above5cm.csv
 **Description:** Number of individuals and biomass of trees  (&gt;5 cm
 dbh) #### File: rec_trees_2to5cm_ind_sp.csv **Description:** Number of
 individuals and of species of recruited trees ( &gt;2 and &lt; 5 cm dbh)
 ### Variable definitions | 
 
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 :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Variable** | **Description** | | site | Cluster of restoration areas (n=5) | | numeric\_plot\_ID | Unique monitoring forest plot ID | | year\_meas | Year of last measurement | | year\_planted | Year forest restoration took place | | altitude | Elevation in m estimated in the field | | clim\_bio1 | Mean annual temperature in Centigrades, obtained from Chelsa | | clim\_bio12 | Total annual precipitation in mm, obtained from Chelsa | | Distance.to.forest\_m | Distance tof a forest monitoring plot to the nearest natural forest fragment measuring 30 x 30 m, mapped with Sentinel-2 | | cover | Site level % of forest cover | | age | Years of the monitoring plot since tree planting | | Other | Dispersal syndrom different than Zoochory | | ZC | Zoochory dispersal syndorm | | no\_ind | Total number of individuals | | n\_sp | Number o species per plot | | n\_ind | Number of individuals per plot | | no\_ind | Number of individuals per plot | | no\_sp\_plot | Number of individuals per plot | | response | Two types of responses: number of individual trees per year, biomass accumulation in kg per year | | value | Value for the response in kg for biomass, and for number of individuals (related to response variable) | 
 
 ## Code/software Excel, text ## Access information Other publicly
 accessible locations of the data: * NA Data was derived from the following
 sources: * Environmental data obtained from the Chelsa extrapolated
 database