Data on environmental characteristics and plant abundances associated with trail segments on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, for 2000-2001

This is a dataset on the abundances of particular plant taxa and on environmental conditions on trail segments on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. These data are associated with the following journal publication: Svenning, J.-C., D. A. Kinner, R. F. Stallard, B. M. J. Engelbrecht, and S. J. Wright. 2004. Ecological determinism in plant community structure across a tropical forest landscape. Ecology 85: 2526-2538. https://doi.org/10.1890/03-0396 Additional online supplemental material for the article is available at the following link: https://figshare.com/collections/ECOLOGICAL_DETERMINISM_IN_PLANT_COMMUNITY_STRUCTURE_ACROSS_A_TROPICAL_FOREST_LANDSCAPE/3298217 Acknowledgments We thank Sebastian Bernal for doing most of the woody plant inventory, Maria del Carmen Ruiz and David Galvéz for soil sampling and processing, and Andrés Hernandez, Osvaldo Calderón, Rolando Pérez, and Salomon Aguilar for taxonomic help. We acknowledge economic support from The Carlsberg Foundation (grants 990086/20 and 990576/20 to J.-C. Svenning), The Danish Natural Science Research Council (grants 9901835, 51-00-0138, and 21-01-0415 to J.-C. Svenning), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (to S. J. Wright and B. M. J. Engelbrecht), the U.S. Geological Survey WEBB Project, and the Smithsonian Terrestrial Environmental Sciences Program. All GIS analyses were completed at the Environmental Imaging and Computation Facility at the University of Colorado. References As of the date of this data publication (2024), these data have been used for the following publications: Svenning, J.-C., D. A. Kinner, R. F. Stallard, B. M. J. Engelbrecht, and S. J. Wright. 2004. Ecological determinism in plant community structure across a tropical forest landscape. Ecology 85: 2526-2538. https://doi.org/10.1890/03-0396 Svenning, J.-C., B. M. J. Engelbrecht, D. A. Kinner, T. A. Kursar, R. F. Stallard, and S. J. Wright. 2006. The relative roles of environment, history and local dispersal in controlling the distributions of common tree and shrub species in a tropical forest landscape, Panama. Journal Of Tropical Ecology 22: 575-586. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266467406003348 Muller-Landau, H. C., and J.-C. Svenning. 2024. An Introduction to Landscape-Level Variation Across the Barro Colorado Nature Monument. Chapter 2 in The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Science, ed. H. C. Muller-Landau and S. J. Wright. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. R code for reproducing the analyses in Muller-Landau and Svenning 2024 is published at Muller-Landau, H.C. and J.-C. Svenning. 2024. Chapter 02 - An Introduction to Landscape-level variation across the Barro Colorado Nature Monument - Appendix S1 - R code and data files to construct Figure 2.Smithsonian Figshare. https://doi.org/10.25573/data.22779260