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<Entry_ID>PANGAEA_932937</Entry_ID>
<Entry_Title>Vascular plant species richness along a climate and land-use gradient in Mongolian rangelands in 2014 and 2015</Entry_Title>
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<Dataset_Creator>Ahlborn, Julian; Römermann, Christine; Wesche, Karsten; von Wehrden, Henrik</Dataset_Creator>
<Dataset_Title>Vascular plant species richness along a climate and land-use gradient in Mongolian rangelands in 2014 and 2015</Dataset_Title>
<Dataset_Release_Date>2021-06-23</Dataset_Release_Date>
<Dataset_Publisher>PANGAEA</Dataset_Publisher>
<Data_Presentation_Form>Dataset</Data_Presentation_Form>
<Online_Resource>https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.932937</Online_Resource>
</Data_Set_Citation>
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<Role>Investigator</Role>
<First_Name>Julian</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Ahlborn</Last_Name>
<Email>julian.ahlborn@zalf.de</Email>
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<Discipline>
<Discipline_Name>Earth Science</Discipline_Name>
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<Detailed_Variable>Event label</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Site</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Distance</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>LATITUDE</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
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<Detailed_Variable>LONGITUDE</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Precipitation, annual total, mean</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Species richness</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
<Keyword>Biological sample</Keyword>
<Keyword>grassland</Keyword>
<Keyword>grazing</Keyword>
<Keyword>Inter-annual variability</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_01</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_02</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_03</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_04</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_05</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_06</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_07</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_08</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_09</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_10</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_11</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_12</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_13</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_14</Keyword>
<Keyword>Mongolian_rangeland_15</Keyword>
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<Long_Name>Measured</Long_Name>
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<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>after Hijmans et al. (2005)</Long_Name>
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<Long_Name>Counted</Long_Name>
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<Start_Date>2014-06-21</Start_Date>
<Stop_Date>2015-08-19</Stop_Date>
</Temporal_Coverage>
<Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
<Spatial_Coverage>
<Southernmost_Latitude>43.51139</Southernmost_Latitude>
<Northernmost_Latitude>48.15454</Northernmost_Latitude>
<Westernmost_Longitude>103.59985</Westernmost_Longitude>
<Easternmost_Longitude>106.83745</Easternmost_Longitude>
</Spatial_Coverage>
<Access_Constraints>unrestricted</Access_Constraints>
<Use_Constraints>CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</Use_Constraints>
<Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
<Data_Center>
<Data_Center_Name>
<Short_Name>PANGAEA</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>Data Publisher for Earth &amp; Environmental Science</Long_Name>
</Data_Center_Name>
<Data_Center_URL>https://www.pangaea.de/</Data_Center_URL>
<Personnel>
<Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
<First_Name>Michael</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Diepenbroek</Last_Name>
<Email>info@pangaea.de</Email>
<Contact_Address>
<Address>Leobener Str.</Address>
<City>Bremen</City>
<Province_or_State>Bremen</Province_or_State>
<Postal_Code>28359</Postal_Code>
<Country>Germany</Country>
</Contact_Address>
</Personnel>
</Data_Center>
<Distribution>
<Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
<Distribution_Size>3750 data points</Distribution_Size>
<Distribution_Format>text/tab-separated-values</Distribution_Format>
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<Reference>Ahlborn, Julian; Wesche, Karsten; Lang, Birgit; Oyunbileg, Munkhzul; Oyuntsetseg, Batlai; Römermann, Christine; French Collier, Neil; von Wehrden, Henrik (2021): Interactions between species richness, herbivory and precipitation affect standing biomass in Mongolian rangelands. Applied Vegetation Science, 24(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12581</Reference>
<Summary>The data set features the species richness of vascular plants along a 600km long gradient Mongolian rangeland vegetation. The data was collected to study the role of climatic variability for the effects of grazing in rangelands. 15 sites were selected across a 600 km long precipitation gradient in Central Mongolia. At each site, 5 subplots were sampled within each distance of 50m, 150m, 350, 750m and 1500m to a grazing hotspot. The 375 plots with 10 m x 10 m were visited in 2014 and resampled in 2015. More information is available in the corresponding paper. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.932937"!</Summary>
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<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709</URL>
<Description>LATITUDE</Description>
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<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709</URL>
<Description>LONGITUDE</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601</URL>
<Description>DATE/TIME</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1276</URL>
<Description>after Hijmans et al. (2005)</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12581</URL>
<Description>Interactions between species richness, herbivory and precipitation affect standing biomass in Mongolian rangelands</Description>
</Related_URL>
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<DIF_Creation_Date>2021-06-23</DIF_Creation_Date>
<Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2026-04-30</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
</DIF>
