Survival, growth and biomass estimates of two dominant palmetto species of south-central Florida from 1981-2017, ongoing at five-year intervals.

Abrahamson W. G. 2019. Survival, growth and biomass estimates of two dominant palmetto species of south-central Florida from 1981-2017, ongoing at five-year intervals.   Environmental Data Initiative. doi:10.6073/pasta/f2f96ec76fbbd4b9db431c79a770c4d5

This data package is comprised of three datasets all pertaining to two dominant palmetto species, Serenoa repens and Sabal etonia , at Archbold Biological Station in south-central Florida. The first dataset, palmetto_data, contains survival and growth data across multiple years, habitats and experimental treatments. The second dataset, seedlings_data, follows the fate of marked putative palmetto seedlings in the field to assess survivorship and growth. The final dataset, harvested_palmetto_data, contains size data and estimated dry mass (biomass in grams) of 33 destructively harvested palmetto plants of varying sizes and across habitats. Thirty-two of these were used to calculate estimated biomass, using regression equations, for palmettos sampled in the palmetto_data.