Table 3 Descriptors common to the four data tables containing taxon counts or abundance (arthropods, reptiles, parasites, plants) in the POSTDIV database.

From: Postfire biodiversity database for eastern Iberia

Name

Descriptor

ID

Unique record identifier (3 letters + 4 numbers: XXX0000)

Site

Andilla or Cortes (Table 1); short name of the fire

Plot

Plot identifier (24 distinct codes with three characters) (Table 2)

Year

Sampling year

Date

Sampling date (YYYY-MM-DD)

Tax.level

Lowest taxonomic level identified

Tax.name

Taxonomic name (Table 5)

  1. In those data tables, each row represents a single record, i.e., abundance of a given taxon per plot and date.