Ferns of Mashpi

This data summarizes the data of a first survey of terrestrial ferns at Mashpi Biodiversity Reserve, an Ecuadorian Chocó forest relict, one of the most biodiverse areas in the world. We include tree tables, the first one includes the species with the vouchers, the second one includes a species with the abundance of each species per plot. The third one contains measurements of the leaf length and leaf thickness of several leaf samples of 28 species. It is also included another file with an R script to calculate the abundance of each species per plot, the total abundance per plot, the species richness per plot and diversity index per plot.