Data and code from: Indigenous and European-American land-use legacies in forest composition, Fort Drum, northern New York State: What do species distribution models detect across a local extent?

This study aimed to evaluate how past land use shapes forest compositional patterns using fine-resolution, local-extent species distribution models (SDMs), examining whether legacies of Indigenous and European-American land-use regimes interact to influence past and present forest composition and whether proxies of past land use improve SDMs. The study was conducted at Fort Drum, northern New York State, US (434 km²), focusing on 27 tree taxa across 18 genera, including Acer, Amelanchier, Betula, Carpinus, Carya, Fagus, Fraxinus, Juglans, Ostrya, Pinus, Populus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix, Thuja, Tilia, Tsuga, and Ulmus. Species distribution models were developed for tree taxa circa 2000 using a forest inventory of 10,043 plots, and analyses incorporated original land survey records circa 1800 alongside archaeological data. Results indicated that “distance to nearest circa 1950 forest” was the most important predictor of circa 2000 tree taxon distributions, surpassing soil conditions such a..., , # Data and code from: Indigenous and European-American land-use legacies in forest composition, Fort Drum, northern New York State: What do species distribution models detect across a local extent? Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.jsxksn0n9](10.5061/dryad.jsxksn0n9) ## Description of the data and file structure **Data and code for species distribution models** This research article sought to understand the relative influence of Native American and/or European-American land use upon tree species distributions observed circa 1800 and 2000. Also, refer to the [publication](https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15180) to understand abbreviations. ### Files and variables #### File: R1_Fort_Drum_DATA_for_models_1800.csv **Description:** data for running species distribution models of tree species distributions circa 1800 Note: n/a = no data value Note: Data for some variables are not provided because they would give away the locations of archaeological sites ##### Variables * OID: object ID from..., ,