Mandai storm forest plots

This is a repository for the data and scripts behind the Mandai storm forest plots described in:

Yee, A.T.K., H.R. Lai, K.Y. Chong, L. Neo, C.Y. Koh, S.Y. Tan, W.W. Seah, J.W. Loh, R.C.J. Lim, M. van Breugel, H.T.W. Tan. (2019) Short-term responses in a secondary tropical forest after a severe windstorm event. Journal of Vegetation Science 30: 720–731.

A blog post was contributed to the Vegetation Science Blog for this publication.

And also:

Lai, H.R., K.Y. Chong, A.T.K. Yee. (2022) Ten years after: what we learned from the Mandai storm forest. Nature in Singapore Supplement 1: e2022121.

Other publications arising from this dataset include:

• Lai, H.R., K.Y. Chong, A.T.K. Yee, H.T.W. Tan, M. van Breugel. (2020) Functional traits that moderate tropical plant recruitment during post-windstorm secondary succession. Journal of Ecology 108: 1322–1333.

  • Also with a blog post on the Journal of Ecology blog.
  • Model and processed data can be found in another GitHub repo

• Lai, H.R., K.Y. Chong, A.T.K. Yee, M.M. Mayfield, D.B. Stouffer (2022) The role of higher-order biotic interactions on tropical tree growth. Ecology 103: e03588.

  • Model and processed data can be found in another GitHub repo

To install

devtools::install_github("kwekings/Mandai")

The object Mandai_data containing the data can then be called (i.e., either after library(Mandai) or as Mandai::Mandai_data).