RT Journal Article
T1 Postfire biodiversity database for eastern Iberia
A1 Pausas, Juli G.
A1 Álvarez Ruiz, Lola
A1 Baz, Arturo
A1 Belliure, Josabel
A1 Benítez, Guille
A1 Ferrer Gallego, P. Pablo
A1 Herrando Pérez, Salvador
A1 Jiménez, Joan Nicolau
A1 Laguna, Emilio
A1 Mínguez, Eduardo
A1 Montagud, Sergio
A1 Outerelo Domínguez, Raimundo
A1 Roca, Vicente
A1 Santos, Xavier
A1 Velázquez de Castro, Antonio J.
A1 Viñolas, Amador
A1 Cifuentes, Julio
A1 Gilgado, José D.
AB In the summer of 2012, two fires affected Mediterranean ecosystems in the eastern Iberian Peninsula. The size of these fires was at the extreme of the historical variability (megafires). Animals are traditionally assumed to recolonize from source populations outside of the burned area (exogenous regeneration) while plants recover from endogenous regeneration (resprouting and seeding). However, there is increasing evidence of in situ fire survival in animals. To evaluate the effect of large-scale fires on biodiversity and the mechanism of recovery, in 2013, we set up 12 plots per fire, covering burned vegetation at different distances from the fire perimeter and unburned vegetation. In each plot, we followed the postfire recovery of arthropods, reptiles (including some of their parasites), and plants for 2 to 5 years. Here we present the resulting database (POSTDIV) of taxon abundance. POSTDIV totals 19,906 records for 457 arthropod taxa (113,681 individuals), 12 reptile taxa (503 individuals), 4 reptile parasites (234 individuals), and 518 plant taxa (cover-abundance). We provide examples in the R language to query the database.
PB Springer
SN 2052-4463
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120477
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120477
LA eng
NO Pausas, J.G., Álvarez-Ruiz, L., Baz, A. et al. Postfire biodiversity database for eastern Iberia. Sci Data 10, 872 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02794-9
NO This study benefited from the FILAS (CGL2015-64086-P) and the FIROTIC (PGC2018-096569-B-I00) projects from the Spanish government (MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033/) and the FocScale project (Prometeo/2021/040) from the regional government of Valencia (Generalitat Valenciana).
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
NO Generalitat Valenciana
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 dic 2025