Data and script:Interactive persistent effects of past land-cover and its trajectory on tropical freshwater biodiversity

This is the unique dataset used to run the analysis of the manuscript: "Interactive persistent effects of past land-cover and its trajectory on tropical freshwater biodiversity". You'll find in the "corumbatai_rb.txt" the catchment's and stream's ID,  forest cover (%) within reach contribution areas in 1962, 1972, 1978, 2003 and 2011. The document "aquatic_insects.txt" contains the community data (columns= taxa, rows=sites). We also provide and R code used to analyze the relationship between biodiversity and change in forest cover that occurred across five decades, including landscape trajectories of forest gain and loss.