Ecological, flowering phenology, morphological and seed production of three sympatric dioecious Chamaedorea palms from Costa Rica

The data in the file was used to estimate the factors shaping seed production in three sympatric dioecious Chamaedorea palms in Costa Rica during the 2011-2012 season. The file contains the following fields:

Species. The name of the species: C. costaricana, C. macrospadix and C. tepejilote

ID. Identifier for each studied individual female plant.

infl. Identifier for each sampled inflorescence from each sampled female.

census.date: flowering date of each inflorescence.

days.since.oct14: number of days since the first Chamaedorea inflorescence flowered.

days.since.1st.flr: number of days since the first Chamaedorea inflorescence of each species flowered.

sync.costa: flowering overlap with C. costaricana males.

sync.macro: flowering overlap with C. macrospadix males.

sync.tepe: flowering overlap with C. tepejilote males.

neartest.female: distance to the nearest synchronously flowering conspecific female.

male.5m: number of synchronously flowering conspecific male individuals in a 5m radius

male.10m: number of synchronously flowering conspecific male individuals in a 10m radius

female.5m.edco: number of synchronously flowering conspecific female individuals in a 5m radius, after applying Ripley's (1977) edge correction.

female.10m.edco: number of synchronously flowering conspecific female individuals in a 10m radius, after applying Ripley's (1977) edge correction.

male.5m.edco: number of synchronously flowering conspecific  male individuals in a 5m radius, after applying Ripley's (1977) edge correction.

male.10m.edco: number of synchronously flowering conspecific male individuals in a 10m radius, after applying Ripley's (1977) edge correction.

no.stems: specific for C. costaricana, number of stems per individual.

height: height of the flowering stem in cm.

leaves: number of leaves of the flowering stem

leaflets: number of leaflets of the youngest leaf of the flowering stem

leaf.rachis: length in cm of the youngest leaf of the flowering stem

floral.rachis: length in cm of the inflorescence's rachis

peduncle: length in cm of the inflorescence's peduncle

no.spikes: number of spikes of the inflorescence

no.flowers: number of flowers per inflorescence

no.fruits: number of single-seeded fruits per inflorescence