Identification

Title

Avifauna occurrence data from a longitudinal experiment in human-modified Amazonian forests affected by the 2015-16 El Niño drought and associated fires

Abstract

This data set includes longitudinal occurrence of bird species at 36 forest plots – half of which burned during the 2015-16 El Niño drought – distributed across a gradient of prior human disturbance in the Brazilian Amazon. Data was collected in 2010 and 2016 (around 6 years before, and one year after the 2015-16 El Niño, respectively) as part of the projects 'Assessing ENSO-induced Fire Impacts in tropical Rainforest Ecosystems' (AFIRE) and 'Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic Forests' (ECOFOR), within the NERC Human-Modified Tropical Forest (HTMF) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4b05caee-a3c8-46a7-b675-e5a94554bd9f

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/4b05caee-a3c8-46a7-b675-e5a94554bd9f

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function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4b05caee-a3c8-46a7-b675-e5a94554bd9f.zip

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4b05caee-a3c8-46a7-b675-e5a94554bd9f

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-55

East bounding longitude

-54.3

North bounding latitude

-2.3

South bounding latitude

-3.3

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2010-01-01

End position

2016-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-12-13

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

In 2010 and 2016, bird sampling occurred along 300-m forest plots at the same three sampling points (0, 150 and 300m). All bird species seen or heard were recorded through two repetitions of three 15-min, 75-m fixed-width point counts per plot. Surveys were undertaken between 15 min before dawn and 09:30, only in days without persistent rain and/or strong winds. Point counts were recorded with solid-state recorders. Seasonal and temporal variation in bird vocal activity were minimized by systematically rotating repetitions between catchments and study plots. Datasets were processed by tropical bird specialists, and were then transferred to the programme data manager of the HMTF programme.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Lees, A., Moura, N., Franca, F.M., Ferreira, J.N., Gardner, T., Berenguer, E., Chesini, L., Andertti, C., Barlow, J. (2018). Avifauna occurrence data from a longitudinal experiment in human-modified Amazonian forests affected by the 2015-16 El Niño drought and associated fires. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4b05caee-a3c8-46a7-b675-e5a94554bd9f

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

Alexander.Lees@mmu.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

Alexander.Lees@mmu.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7603-9081

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