Forest plant distribution and environmental data in the western Swiss Alps

Plant species (presence-absence records) and environmental data for each of the 3076 forest plots. The Scherrer et al. (2018, Methods in Ecology and Evolution) paper uses the associated Dryas dataset of plant species distribution data and environmental predictors to compare a number of thresholding methods for stacked species distribution models (S-SDMs) and how to best evaluate them with an appropriate cross-validation framework. Subsets of these data have also been used in previous works by the same research group: Scherrer et al. (2017, Diversity and Distributions) and others (see full publication list under http://www.unil.ch/ecospat).