Greater landscape-scale forest cover and animal-mediated seed dispersal syndromes associate with faster recovery rates in restoring tropical Andean forests

Data on recovery rates of woody vegetation in five restoring areas in
North-Western Ecuador. Datasets include 1) environmental and landscape
variables, 2) trees measuring > 5 cm dbh [individuals and biomass],
3) naturally regenerated trees measuring 2-5 cm dbh [individuals, species
richness, dispersal mode], and 4) woody saplings measuring ≥ 20 cm height
and < 2 cm dbh [individuals, species richness, dispersal mode]. All
data recovery values are presented as plot-level rates over time. For
regenerated trees and saplings, datasets on their dispersal syndromes are
also available. Environmental data includes elevation, mean annual
temperature and precipitation extracted from the CHELSA extrapolated
database. This file also contains land-cover data extracted using Sentinel
2 on the distance of each forest monitoring plot to a natural forest
patch, and percentage of landscape-scale natural forest cover.