Published January 4, 2021 | Version v1

Dataset: Species presence, trait and philogeny database. Data from: Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old field succession. Journal of Vegetation Science.

  • 1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
  • 2. EcoNetLab, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
  • 3. Multidisciplinary Institute for Plant Biology (IMBIV-CONICET), National University of Cordoba, RA-5000 Córdoba, Argentina.
  • 4. Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Fürstengraben 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany.
  • 5. Institute for Environmental Sciences and Biotechnology, Faculty 5, City University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Neustadtswall 30, D-28199 Bremen, Germany.
  • 6. Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
  • 7. Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 1160/31, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
  • 8. Slovenian Forestry Institute, Department of Forest Ecology, Večna pot 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • 9. Vegetation Ecology Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Grüentalstrasse 14, CH-8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland.
  • 10. Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmany ut 2–4, H-2163 Vacratot, Hungary.
  • 11. Institute for Biology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Rottenbiller u. 50, 1077 Budapest, Hungary

Description

This dataset was use in the manuscript "Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old field succession" publish at Journal of Vegetation Science. It contains the data of species presence at three different plots and species trait values (SLA, LDMC, height, seed weight and Phylogeny). We show that at the initial stage of succession, there is a scale-invariant pattern of trait convergence. On the contrary, in the late and intermediate stages of succession we observed that trait divergence became frequent at smaller grains and extents. The trend along the chronosequence is consistent with the theoretical hypothesis that predicts a shift from convergence to divergence along succession.

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