Dataset for "Alien plants tend to occur in species-poor communities"

This dataset contains the list of plant species, their abundances, vegetation types, and the area of the vegetation plots analyzed in the paper titled “Alien plants tend to occur in species-poor communities” by Padullés Cubino et al. (2022; Neobiota). 

These data were obtained from the Czech National Phytosociological Database (Chytrý and Rafajová, 2003) (https://botzool.cz/vegsci/phytosociologicalDb).

The dataset contains 2 tables:

1. “Metadata.xlsx”: It includes a description of the fields found in "plot_species.csv".
2. “plot_species.csv”: It includes the list of angiosperm plant taxa, their abundance cover, associated vegetation type, and the area of each vegetation plot.

References: 

Chytrý M, Rafajová M (2003) Czech National Phytosociological Database: basic statistics of the available vegetation-plot data. Preslia 75: 1–15.