Carabid beetles and vascular plants in Dutch roadside verges

Counts of 126 beetle taxa and abundances of 173 vascular plant taxa (expressed on the 1-9 van der Maarel scale) in 30 road-side verges in the Netherlands.

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Details

This is the complete dataset of Raemakers et al (2001). ter Braak and Schaffers (2004) only analyse a subset of 91 beetle taxa.

Source

Raemakers, I.P., Schaffers, A.P., Sykora, V. and Heijerman, T. (2001) The importance of plant communities in road verges as habitat for insects. Proceedings of the Section Experimental and Applied Entomology if the Netherlands Entomological Society 12, 101--106.

ter Braak, C.J.F and Schaffers, A.P. (2004) Co-Correspondence Analysis: a new ordination method to relate two community compositions. Ecology 85(3), 834--846

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