Name_table;Field.name;Field.type;Units;Description
Table_taxa;PlotID;Categorical;Unitless;Individual plot identifier
Table_taxa;Species.name;Categorical;Unitless;Name of individual taxa according to The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org)
Table_sites;PlotID;Categorical;Unitless;Individual plot identifier
Table_sites;Forest.type;Categorical;Unitless;Plot classification into coniferous forest (CF), broaleaved deciduous forest (BDF), broadleaved evergreen forest (BEF). 
Table_sites;MAT;Numeric;Degrees Celsius;Mean Annual Temperature in plot (BIO1 from https://www.worldclim.org)
Table_sites;Tses;Numeric;Standard deviation _ 100;Temperature seasonality in plot (BIO4 from https://www.worldclim.org)
Table_sites;AP;Numeric;millimeters;Annual precipitation in plot (BIO12 from https://www.worldclim.org)
Table_sites;Pses;Numeric;Coefficient of Variation;Precipitation seasonality in plot (BIO15 from https://www.worldclim.org)
Table_sites;VTC;Numeric;meters/year;"""Velocity of Temperature Change"" since the Last Glacial Maximum (~ 21,000 years BP) following Sandel et al. (2011; Science)."
Table_sites;EAT;Numeric;%;"""Extent of Analogous Temperature"", which is a measure of climate commonness, based on the climate rarity measure of Ohlemu_ller et al. (2008; Biology Letters). See further details in Padullˇs et al. (2021; Journal of Biogeography)."
Table_sites;Elevation;Numeric;meters above sea level;It was derived from the global digital elevation model developed by the U.S. Geological Survey's Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (freely available at https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov).
Table_sites;TRI;Numeric;meters;It is the mean of the absolute differences between the value of a cell where a plot is located and the value of its surrounding cells. It was derived from the global digital elevation model developed by the U.S. Geological Survey's Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (freely available at https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov).
Table_sites;Soil.pH;Numeric;Unitless;It is a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of the soil. It was derived from the SoilGrids database (https://soilg rids.org)
Table_sites;Grid_cell_Longitude;Numeric;Degrees in Longitude;Longitude of the 1o _ 1o grid cell where plot was located
Table_sites;Grid_cell_Latitude;Numeric;Degrees in Latitude;Latitude of the 1o _ 1o grid cell where plot was located
Table_sites;Dataset;Categorical;Unitless;"Name of original datasets from which each plot was obtained in the European Vegetation Archive (EVA). See ""http://euroveg.org/eva-database-participating-databases"" for a complete list of datasets."