A Comprehensive Dataset on Cultivated and Spontaneously Growing Vascular Plants in Urban Gardens
Data in brief 25 (2019) 103982 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Data in brief journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/dib Data Article A comprehensive dataset on cultivated and spontaneously growing vascular plants in urban gardens * David Frey a, b, , Marco Moretti a a Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland b Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitatstrasse€ 16, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland article info abstract Article history: This article summarizes the data of a survey of vascular plants in 85 Received 2 February 2019 urban gardens of the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Data was acquired Received in revised form 16 April 2019 by two sampling methods: (i) a floristic inventory of entire garden Accepted 1 May 2019 lots based on repeated garden visits, including all vegetation pe- Available online 23 May 2019 riods; and (ii) vegetation releves on two plots of standardized size (10 m2) per garden during the summer. We identified a total of 1081 Keywords: taxa and report the origin status, i.e., whether a taxon is considered Allotment BetterGardens native or alien to Switzerland. Furthermore, the origin of a plant or Home gardens garden population was estimated for each taxon and garden: each Lawn taxon in each garden was classified as being either cultivated or Neophytes spontaneously growing. For each garden, the number of all native, Urban biodiversity cultivated, and spontaneously growing plant species is given, along Vegetation releves with additional information, including garden area, garden type and the landscape-scale proportion of impermeable surface within a 500-m radius.
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