Dataset

Replication Data for: Floristic diversity of Piliostigma asssociations in relation to latitudinal gradient, soil and climate variables in Burkina Faso, West Africa

SoilsBurkina FasoThe World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Dataset Objective

To examine the floristic composition and its relationship with environmental factors.

Context

The results showed that Piliostigma communities show only limited variation in species composition among sites. The first two axes of the DCA together explained 16.5% of the floristic variation. The CCA showed that climatic variables explain 42% of the species variance.

What is included

Data contains the soil characteristics, number of relevés and various woody species.

Collection Methods

Survey experiment - Detrended Correspondence Analysis and Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) were used to explore the relationship between species occurring in Piliostigma stands and environmental variables