Spatio-temporal variation in bird assemblages is associated with fluctuations in temperature and precipitation along a tropical elevational gradient

This data set has been used in the paper “Spatio-temporal variation in bird assemblages is associated with fluctuations in temperature and precipitation along a tropical elevational gradient” (Santillán et al. 2018, PlosONE). It contains bird census data (bird richness, abundance, evenness) from 18 study plots located at three elevations (1000, 2000 and 3000 m a. s. l.) in and around Podocarpus National Park in the Ecuadorian Andes. Sampling has been repeated eight times over two years (2014, 2015), resulting in 144 replicates across all plots. The data set also contains data of resource availability (number of flowers and fruits, invertebrate biomass), temperature and precipitation data for each plot, observer distance to the recorded bird (only for 2015), and the abundance and richness of four feeding guilds (i.e., nectarivores, frugivores, insectivores, omnivores) across all plots.