DCN-75: “Terrestrial land-cover type richness is positively linked to landscape-level functioning”, a GIS/geospatial ecology and evolutionary biology dataset, was submitted to the DCN by Elizabeth Hull on behalf of Dryad, and curated by Melinda Kernik.

This dataset was of good quality initially, but Melinda had several recommendations for the data author, including: adding citations for data sources used in the analysis, clarifying definitions and units of measurements in the documentation (README file), removing redundant documentation (README) files, and finally, considering the inclusion of a spatial data file with the boundaries of the studied plots to make the dataset potentially more useful for future researchers.

Elizabeth reported that the data author accepted the almost all of Melinda’s recommendations, and therefore major curation actions were taken (files, documentation, and/or metadata updated or added).

For more information about this dataset please click the linked identifier above. Thank you Melinda and Elizabeth!


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