Dataset: Climate change effects on early stages of Quercus ariifolia (Fagaceae), an endemic oak from seasonally dry forests of Mexico

This repository contains the files associated with the following article:

Badano EI, FA Guerra-Coss, EJ Sánchez-Montes de Oca, CI Briones-Herrera & SM Gelviz-Gelvez. Climate change effects on early stages of Quercus ariifolia (Fagaceae), an endemic oak from seasonally dry forests of Mexico. Acta Botanica Mexicana, 126, Article e1466. https://doi.org/10.21829/abm126.2019.1466

The first Microsoft Excel file (Additional data 01 - Microclimate.xlsx) contains microclimate data gathered within control plots and climate change simulation plots (CCS plots) during the field experiment. These data include air temperature (measured every hour in 10 experimental units of each climate treatment with dataloggers - HOBO U23-Pro-V2, Onset Computer Corporation, USA), rainfall (measured at each rainfall event in 5 experimental units of each climate treatment with automatized pluviometers - HOBO S-RGB-M002, Onset Computer Corporation, USA) and soil water content (measured every week in 10 experimental units of each climate treatment with a time-domain reflectometer - FieldScout TDR 300, Spectrum Technologies, USA). Values of each of these variables are provided in different spreadsheets. The second Microsoft Excel file (Additional data 02 - Seedling responses) contains the data used to calculate the emergence rates and survival rates of Quercus ariaefolia during the experimental period a each experimental treatment. This file also contains the data gathered at the end of the experiment about chlorophyll content (in SPAD Units) and chlorophyll fluorescence (the spreadsheet contains the values of these variables measured on each seedling leaf; the computation of averages across leaves of each seedling is provided on the side), and the other functional traits measured on seedlings from controls and CCS plots.