Dataset of plant community quadrats in Tibetan Plateau (2019) was obtained from the field survey of The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Task 3 Topic 6 in August 2019. The spatial span is N36.02° -38.07 °, and E91.45° -100.84 °. The dataset consisted 48 plots including forest, shrub, grassland, desert and cropland. And the dataset consisted of four parts, including plot information, tree layer plot, shrub layer plot and herb layer plot. Among them, there are 2 data of tree layer, 63 data of shrub layer and 101 data of herb layer. The survey items included species composition, species coverage, average species height, average area of shrub canopy and total community coverage.

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The data is stored in Excel. The first page of the file shows the basic information of all plot, and the name of sheet represents the content of the data. The plot code is QZKK201908130103, QZKK is the abbreviation of Qing Zang Ke Kao (Chineses name of the Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research) , 2019 is the sampling year, 19081301 is the plot name, and 03 is the community type.

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Huang, Y., Huo, J., Ren, L. (2021). Dataset of plant community quadrats in Tibetan Plateau (2019). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Terre.tpdc.271980. CSTR: 18406.11.Terre.tpdc.271980. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition Program

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