Fig. 2

Data structure from the elevational gradient and fire treatment study in the Puna grasslands of the southeastern Andes, Manú National Park buffer zone, Department of Cusco, Paucartambo province, Challabamba district, Perú. The boxes represent data tables including community composition (dataset i), community height and structure (dataset ii), plant functional traits (dataset iii), biomass (dataset iv), ecosystem fluxes (dataset v), and climate (dataset vi). Names of individual data tables are given in the title area, and a selection of the main variables available within tables are given in the internal lists. For complete sets of variables for each dataset, see Tables 2–7. Note that all bold variables are shared between several tables and can be used as keys to join them.