Online-only Table 2 Overview of stationary (snapshot) data collected and compiled for the area in Madre de Dios (Peru), Acre (Brazil) and Pando (Bolivia), the MAP area.

From: A spatiotemporal natural-human database to evaluate road development impacts in an Amazon trinational frontier

Sub-system

Spatial resolution

Stationary (snapshot) variables

HUMAN

Community

Community characteristics

Community ID

Community names

Coordinates

Community area (km2)

Country

Area as fraction of study area

Area as fraction of study area in each country

Elevation, mean and standard deviation (MASL)

Capital

Distance to (state) capital (km)

Nearest market

Distance to nearest market (km)

Households

Household characteristics

Various, themes:

Location

 - Migration history

 - Household assets

  • Human capital

  • Housing quality and durable goods

  • Durable goods for transport, communication

  • Social capital

  • Capital inputs for household productive activities

 - Land tenure

 - Productive activities

  • Agriculture

  • Forest extractivism 2005–2008

 - Health and well-being (last 12 months)

 - Past changes (last 5 years) and future plans (next year)

NATURAL

Community

Soil types

Soil organic carbon (g/kg)

Soil pH

Sand, silt and clay fractions (%)

Bulk density (tones/m3)

Cation-exchange capacity (cmol/kg)

Volumetric coarse fragments

Soil organic carbon stock (tonnes/ha)

Depth to bedrock (m)

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (10−6m/s)

Saturated volumetric water content (cm3/cm3)

Residual volumetric water content (cm3/cm3)

Community

Forest types

Alluvial (%)

Bamboo dominated (%)

Palm dominated (%)

Dense (%)

Developed (%)

Water (%)

Wetlands (%)

Submontane dense (%)

Transects

Botanical data

Per transect:

 - Family

 - Genus

 - Species

 - Diameter at breast height (cm)

 - Height (m)

 - Voucher

Per plot:

 - Year

 - Distance from Inter Oceanic Highway (m)

 - Distance from nearest urban area with population > 25000 (m)

 - Distance from nearest point in Andean area with MASL > 1000 m

 - Aboveground biomass (Mg/ha)

GENERAL

Variable

Shapefiles

State boundaries

Community boundaries

Protected areas and reserves

Roads

Rivers

Soils

Digital Elevation Map

Stations (hydrological and meteorological) and towns

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