Este archivo ha sido creado el 04-09-2025 por María José Leiva Morales GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------ 1. Dataset title:Dataset used in paper submitted to PLos One, entitled: Spatial pattern of herbaceous seed dispersal by ungulates in grasslands of the Doñana National Park (SW Spain) 2. Authorship: Name: María José Leiva Morales Institution: Universidad de Sevilla Email:leiva@us.es ORCID:0000-0003-0895-2455 Name: José Maria Fedriani Laffitte Institution: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Email:fedriani@csic.es ORCID:0000-0002-1582-2621 DESCRIPTION ---------- 1. Dataset language: English 2. Abstract: Datasets pertain to a study on the effect of the ungulate community composition on short distance seeds dispersal and the potential generation of spatial pattern of plant species distribution. The study was conducted at two grassland sites (Martinazo and Matasgordas) in the Doñana National Park (SW Spain). The sites were used by: i) a four ungulate species comunity (i.e., deer, wild boar, cattle and horse) and ii) a community highly dominated by deer. Both sites differed in the total number of herbaceous seeds dispersed and in the plant families most abundantly dispersed. In the four-species ungulate community, cow and deer were the most dissimilar pair in taxonomic composition of dispersed seeds. In addition, in this community, but not in the deer dominated one, we found significant spatial patterns of total seed dispersal (significant positive effect of short-distance feces aggregation, spatial covariance in seed content of two nearby feces, and significant correlation between seed content and density of nearby feces) as well as significant spatial pattern of dispersal of the seeds families preferentially associated with cow. These findings highlight a notable effect of the composition of disperser community on seeds dispersal and spatial structure at the short spatial scale of this study Dataset consists of ten datafiles that include: i) information on seed content and taxonomic composition (families) in fecal samples collected in the two study sites (Matasgordas and Martinazo) and where the ungulate comunities are composed by a single disperser (deer in Matasgordas) or four dispersers (dear, cow, horse, wild board in Martinazo) and ii) information on spatial coordinates of fecal samples collected in the two sites (Martinazo and Matasgordas) as well as the seed content per sample (total seed content and seed content of the three most frequent plant families dispersed at each site). 3. Keywords: Marked point pattern analysis; Seeds dispersal; Ungulate community composition 4. Date of data collection (fecha única o rango de fechas):20-03-2020 to 01-03-2023 5. Publication Date: [ Obligatorio si es aplicable. Fecha de depósito en el repositorio | Formato DD-MM-YYYY] 6. Grant information: Grant Agency:Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades Grant Number: PID2019-108288R-A-I00 7. Geographical location/s of data collection: Doñana National Park (Southern Spain). Martinazo and Matasgordas sites ACCESS INFORMATION ------------------------ 1. Creative Commons License of the dataset: CC BY 4.0 2. Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.12795/11441/176810 3. Related publication: 4. Link to related datasets: VERSIONING AND PROVENANCE --------------- 1. Last modification date: 04-09-2025 2. Were data derived from another source?: No METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION ----------------------- 1. Description of the methods used to collect and generate the data: Sampling followed the methodology described by Fedriani et al. (2010) [Fedriani, J.M., Wiegand T, and Delibes, M. 2010. Spatial patterns of adult trees and the mammal-generated seed rain in the Iberian pear. Ecography 33: 545-555. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1600-0587.2009.06052.x.] 2. Data processing methods: Seed extraction from fecal units, identification and cuantification; The spatial coordinates of each point were logged using a Global Position System-reading 3. Software or instruments needed to interpret the data: NMDS and Permanova analysis in Past4.17; Marked point pattern analysis (Illian et al. 2008; Wiegand and Moloney 2014) Illian, J., Penttinen, A., Stoyan, H., Stoyan, D. (2008). Statistical analysis and modelling of spatial point patterns (Vol. 70). New York, NY: JohnWiley & Sons.- Wiegand, T., & Moloney, K. A. (2014). Handbook of spatial point-pattern analysis in ecology (p. 538). Boca Raton, FL, USA: Chapman & Hall/CRDC applied environmental statistics. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. FILE OVERVIEW ---------------------- 1. Explain the file naming conversion, si es aplicable:File names are composed of: site name (Martinazo or Matasgordas= Matasg); the group of seeds in the seed content data(TOTAL= all seeds without distinguishing family; CAR= seeds in the Cariophyllaceae family; Val= seeds in the Valerianaceae family; CYP= seeds in the Cyperaceae family; PLA= seeds in the Plantaginaceae family; FAB = seeds in the Fabaceae family) 2. File list: File name:1 Seed content in deer feces at two sites Description:excel file File name:2 Seed content in feces from all dispersers at Martinazo Description:excel file File name:3 Martinazo-TOTAL seeds content Description: text file File name:4 Martinazo-CYP seeds content Description: text file File name:5 Martinazo-PLA seeds content Description: text file File name:6 Martinazo-CAR seeds content Description: text file File name:7 Matasg-TOTAL seeds content Description: text file File name:8 Matasg-VAL seeds content Description: text file File name:9 Matasg-FAB seeds content Description: text file File name:10 Matasg-CYP seeds content Description: text file 4. File format: excel (.xlsx) and text (.mcf) 5. If the dataset includes multiple files, specify the directory structure and relationships between the files: Files #1 and 2 are used in NMDS and Permanova analysis;Files # 3 to 10 are used in point pattern analysis