Journal for Nature Conservation

A probability distribution map of suitable habitat for the threatened grass Arthraxon hispidus in north coast New South Wales, Australia, developed using maximum entropy (MaxEnt) modelling.

This excel spreadsheet data is from online and self-administration survey with 55 experts, engaged in the design and implementation of conservation measures in Mozambique. More specifically, it is about the Niassa National Reserve (NNR), the largest Protected Area (PA) in the country and third in Africa. The survey included four sections of both compulsory and non-compulsory questions, mostly in closed ended Likert-scale. In the first section, experts were asked about the main practices that threaten conservation in the NNR and actors who are directly or indirectly responsible for each practice, reasons for local people’s involvement with those practices. The second section was about the effectiveness and limitations of the current compensation measures implemented to engage local people in conservation. In the third section, respondents were asked to select new measures to enhance the current conservation status and engage local people more effectively in conservation. The last section was about the socio-economic profile of respondents. The survey was conducted from June to September 2017. In the first sheet are the raw data, while in the second are questions and the respective codes Data are provided for public use and can serve as a benchmark for further collaboration in order to conduct more comprehensive research, comparative analysis as well as panels data can be derived. This data can also have application in other fields such as statistics, mathematics and computation.

Excel file containing 12 separate sheets, presenting the following, left to right Sheets 1-8: Adult butterflies mark-release-recapture data, filtered by species x sites and prepared in 1/0 format for program MARK [2]. M. athalia, site H ( = Havraníky) M. athalia, site M (= Mašovice) M. aurelia, site M M. britomartis, site M M. didyma, site H M. didyma, site M M. cinxia, site H M. cinxia, site M Sheet 9: Mobility data, filtered and processed. For each individual recaptured at least once, total flight distance (= TFD, distances summed across consecutive capture points), longest single move and mean flight distance (= TFD / number of captures) is presented, together with number of captures and number of hours elapsed between the first and last capture. Sheet 10: Wing wear data for all species, collated across both sites, but split into sexes. Independently of individual codes, these are wing wear values of each individual handled with date of capture, and consecutive capture day related of Day 1 of capture of that particular species/sex. Sheet 11: Adults habitat use, 20 m buffers. GIS-digitised points of each handling event for all five species, split into sexes, with geography coordinates and land uses / land covers descriptions of 20-m diameter buffers around each capture point. Format for the multivariate analyses program CANOCO [3]. Sheet 11: Adults habitat use, 50 m buffers. As above, but larger buffers around each capture point. Sheet 12: Larval habitats of Melitaea aurelia and M. britomartis. 5-m diameter buffers around randomly set (n = 105) and pre-selected according to prior occurrence of ovipositing females (n = 40) points withing the localities.

Matadata of final mapping and landscape analysis of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park.

Appendix data table with answers to weed risk assessment questions for 47 species of bamboo accompanying the manuscript titled "Running bamboo species pose a greater risk of invasion than clumping bamboo species in the continental United States". We also include information on rhizome habit, score, conclusion, and number of questions answered. Spaces were left blank when there was no information available to answer question, "unk" was entered if there was not enough data to answer or the guidelines indicate "unk" instead of blank space, and "?" when conflicting evidence provided (per published guidelines Gordon et al. 2010). Source codes are as follows: FL=weed risk assessments completed by The Nature Conservancy (available at http://hear.org), PIER=Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (available at http://hear.org), HEAR=Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (available at http://hear.org), UF/IFAS Assessment (available at http://assessment.ifas.ufl.edu), HPWRA=Hawaii Pacific Weed Risk Assessment (available at https://sites.google.com/site/weedriskassessment/home).

This dataset includes microclimate species distribution models at a ~3 m2 spatial resolution and free-air temperature species distribution models at ~0.85 km2 spatial resolution for three plethodontid salamander species (Demognathus wrighti, Desmognathus ocoee, and Plethodon jordani) across Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We also include heatmaps representing the differences between microclimate and free-air species distribution models and polygon layers representing the fragmented habitat for each species' predicted range. All datasets include predictions for 2010, 2030, and 2050.

Supplementary dataset to journal article in the Journal for Nature Conservation on how to improve the conservation of species-rich grasslands with result-oriented payment schemes.