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D. Guidelines regarding collaborations, authorship, and acknowledgement

We encourage collaborations and wide use of these datasets. These data are available for all educational purposes and for researchers seeking to test hypotheses that will advance our understanding of these ecological systems. Anyone interested in for-profit use of these data should discuss details of these uses with one of the contacts listed above.

As noted in C.1., the original / historical Curtis plant community data are all fully available for use by any researcher or educator. Such users should acknowledge the original researchers who collected and analyzed those data (Table 1).

Table 1 . Researchers involved in the initial plant community surveys with J.T. Curtis.

The data generated by later researchers also involve several different plant communities as well as a variety of other kinds of data related to local site and surrounding landscape conditions (Tables 2 and 3). The lead individuals involved in designing these studies and in collecting, checking, and synchronizing these data with the historical surveys are listed. The Tables also list timelines for fully releasing these data for open public access.

Table 2 . Contacts for use of community resample data and scheduled release year for plant data.

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