Seed Banks in Urban Gardens

Seed Bank Dynamics in Boston Urban Community Gardens: Data and Code Repository

Description:This dataset and accompanying R code support the manuscript titled “Seed Bank Dynamics in Boston Urban Community Gardens: Multiscalar Drivers of Abundance, Diversity, and Ecological Homogenization” (submitted to People and Nature). The study investigates the composition, abundance, and diversity of soil seed banks in 32 community gardens across Boston, Massachusetts, USA, using a multiscalar modeling framework.

The dataset includes cleaned germinant emergence data from greenhouse trials, metadata on plot- and garden-level management practices, and spatial context variables derived from GIS. Code is provided for data wrangling, statistical modeling using mixed-effects models, and figure generation. The modeling framework includes multiscale analyses of germinant abundance and diversity, as well as species composition across plots, gardens, and neighborhoods.

Contents:

data/: Processed seed bank and management data

scripts/: R scripts for analysis and figure creation

README.md: Instructions for file structure and reproduction of analyse