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Dataset used in Segrestin & Lepš (2022) Journal of Ecology

The dataset was collected on a long-term experiment led by Jan Lepš.
It contains the annual biomass of plant species growing in a species-rich grassland, over the period 1999-2014.
Vegetation was harvested once a year, at the peak of the growing season, in the central 0.25 m² of 12 plots representing different fertilization and dominant removal treatments.
The values correspond to the measured biomasses of each species which have been sorted by hand thanks to the help of many students and volunteers over the years.
More technical details of biomass sorting are described in Appendix 1 of Lepš et al. (2018) Ecology.

For more information on the data, please contact Jan Lepš: suspa@prf.jcu.cz