Data for: Plants, invertebrates, and birds of grasslands of northeastern Pennsylvania

This dataset contains data for a study of primary productivity and diversity for grassland, meadow, and savanna (GMS) vegetation in northeastern Pennsylvania, USA, where the landscape is primarily forests, agriculture, and urban or suburban development. Data were collected in late summer and early fall of 2014-2015. It includes data for primary productivity, plant species diversity, invertebrate order diversity, and avian abundance and species diversity of 14 grasslands and open areas that were actively managed and three that apparently occurred naturally. Four grasslands were dominated by warm season grasses with the C₄ photosynthetic pathway, nine were dominated by C₃ grasses, forbs, and shrubs, and four had a mixture of both types.