Drivers of plant diversity, community composition, functional traits and soil processes along an alpine gradient in the central Chilean Andes

The datasets in this repository include plant community surveys, hyperspectral reflectance data at the leaf and canopy level, leaf trait data, and soil chemistry data collected at five sites along an elevation gradient of 2400m-3500m in the Chilean Andes (33°S, 70°W). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the environmental drivers of community assembly processes along the elevation gradient., , Excel, R, # Title of Dataset:Drivers of plant diversity, community composition, functional traits and soil processes along an alpine gradient in the central Chilean Andes

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The datasets in this repository include plant community surveys, hyperspectral reflectance data at the leaf and canopy level, leaf trait data, and soil chemistry data collected at five sites along an elevation gradient of 2400m-3500m in the Chilean Andes (33°S, 70°W). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the environmental drivers of community assembly processes along the elevation gradient.

## Description of the Data and file structure

trait_dat_comb.csv
Summary of the data in this file: Leaf traits measured on individuals along an elevation gradient in Chile (33°S, 70°W). Traits were measured on fresh tissue using a spectroradiometer along the transect (every 0.5 m) using a SVC HR 1023i spectroradiometer and leaf clip foreoptic and calculated as spectral indices. In the case of leaf percent nitrogen, traits were pr...