Name_table;Field.name;Field.type;Units;Description
Table_taxa;PlotID;Categorical;Unitless;Individual plot identifier
Table_taxa;TPL.name;Categorical;Unitless;Name of individual taxa according to The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org)
Table_taxa;Cover.perc;Categorical;Unitless;Relative percentage cover of species within plots
Table_sites;PlotID;Categorical;Unitless;Individual plot identifier
Table_sites;LES.CWM.ses;Numeric;Unitless;Standardized effect sizes (ses) of the community weighted mean (CWM) for the leaf economic spectrum (LES)
Table_sites;PSS.CWM.ses;Numeric;Unitless;Standardized effect sizes (ses) of the community weighted mean (CWM) for the plant size spectrum (LES)
Table_sites;LES.CWV.ses;Numeric;Unitless;Standardized effect sizes (ses) of the community weighted variance (CWM) for the leaf economic spectrum (LES)
Table_sites;PSS.CWV.ses;Numeric;Unitless;Standardized effect sizes (ses) of the community weighted variance (CWM) for the plant size spectrum (LES)
Table_sites;ESY.code;Categorical;Unitless;Classification of forest plots into 2017 EUNIS categories (https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eunis-habitat-classification)
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;Aridity_index;Numeric;Unitless;"Global Aridity Index; Aridity index values increase towards more humid conditions and decrease with more arid conditions (for further details see Trabucco and Zomer, 2019)"
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;%_canopy_cover;Numeric;% (over 1);Proportion of tree canopy cover in each plot calculated using the Jennings-FischerŐs formula (Jennings et al. 2009, Fischer 2015)
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."