Morphometric fruit traits of plants on Kilimanjaro

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This dataset includes morphological trait measurements of all plant species recorded on the study sites of Mt. Kilimanjaro. We measured traits related to size and supply of the fruits. For instance, the size and shape of a fruit determines which species may successfully exploit it. Additionally, the forest stratum in which plants display their fruits will attract a specific range of species. The data was collected in the field from 3 individuals for each species.

For each plant species, where birds fed on the fruits, fruits were measured to look at the morphological trait-space. 15 fruit per plant were measured. Ideally this meant 5 fruit from 3 plant individuals respectively. This was not possible for each plant species.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896236
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896237
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12606
Related Identifier https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.894721
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.896236
Provenance
Creator Vollstaedt, Maximilian ORCID logo; Schleuning, Matthias (ORCID: 0000-0001-9426-045X); Böhning-Gaese, Katrin ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2018
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 107847609 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/107847609 Kilimanjaro Research Group
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 19243 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (37.240W, -3.380S, 37.680E, -3.100N); Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania