Field data on diversity and vegetation structure of natural regeneration in a chronosequence of abandoned gold-mining lands in a tropical Amazon forest

• DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.111183
• Publication Date: 2024-12-03T00:59:35Z
• Authors: Jorge Garate-Quispe; Ramiro Canahuire-...; Marx Herrera-Machaca; Sufer Baez-Quispe; Gabriel Alarcón-A...
• Keywords: Chronosequence; Natural regeneration

Anthropogenic activities (e.g., logging, gold-mining, agriculture, and uncontrolled urban expansion) threaten the forests in southeast of Peruvian Amazon, one most diverse ecosystems worldwide. However, gold-mining generates severe impacts on limits its resilience. The natural regeneration degraded areas southeastern Amazon have not been studied deeply. dataset contains floristic inventories previously uncharacterized or poorly secondary abandoned by goldmining an intact forest Tres Islas indigenous community, Madre de Dios region, Peru. data presented was obtained from 12 plots (20 m × 60 m) established three successional gold mining (without impacts), where all trees with a stem diameter at breast height greater than 1 cm were inventoried. To best our knowledge, this is only southwest that compares colonization after forests. This can be useful for long-term study monitoring structure tree diversity relatively understudied yet important abandonment. Also, could used to analyze trajectory process vegetation recovery aboveground biomass. Furthermore, investigate effects functional traits types recovery. Hence, understanding processes will help improve restoration, reforestation, reclamation strategies lands Amazon.