cff-version: 1.2.0
abstract: "<p>We provide data on the morphological and biomechanical characteristics of four species of fully submerged freshwater aquatic macrophytes that can grow into well-defined patches. The dataset covers three relevant levels of organisation: individual plants (inside patches), isolated patches and multiple neighbouring patches.</p>
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<p>During the field sampling, the following parameters were collected and paired with data on local hydrodynamic conditions (water depth and flow velocity measurements):</p>
<ol>
  <li>Plant level: plant height, dimensions of stem cross section, Young’s modulus, second moment of area, flexural stiffness, Cauchy number.</li>
  <li>Patch level: width, length, height and their allometric relationships; density; fresh and dry mass per m2.</li>
  <li>Between-patch level: species composition (% cover in the patch), minimum and maximum gap size (distance between consecutive patches), distance between patch centroids.</li>
</ol>"
authors:
  - family-names: Cornacchia
    given-names: Loreta
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-305X"
  - family-names: Lapetoule
    given-names: Garance
  - family-names: Licci
    given-names: S. (Sofia)
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7210-797X"
  - family-names: Basquin
    given-names: Hugo
  - family-names: Puijalon
    given-names: Sara
title: "Data underlying the publication: How to build vegetation patches in hydraulic studies: a hydrodynamic-ecological perspective on a biological object"
keywords:
version: 1
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.4121/21786434.v1
license: CC BY 4.0
date-released: 2023-02-21