Grassland Community Stability Data with R Scripts for Response Diversity Analysis

R scripts and datasets supporting research on response diversity in grassland ecosystems. The data was used to quantify response diversity based on performance-environment relationships and to analyze its effects on functional and compositional stability. The 1.6 MB collection, last updated in May 2026, is authored by Manuel Pitzer and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Quantifying response diversity based on performance-environment relationships described in the manuscript.
• Analyzing the relationship between response diversity and functional stability of grassland communities.
• Investigating the trade-off between compositional stability and biodiversity as discussed in the research.
• Reproducing the statistical analyses from the associated scientific publication.
• Developing or validating novel ecological metrics for community stability.

Strengths

• Includes both raw data files (CSV, TXT) and the R scripts used for analysis, enabling full reproducibility.
• Dataset is version-controlled as an 'updated version' of the original research materials.
• Shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely collected from experimental grassland plots, as inferred from the manuscript's focus.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 11:17:16; freshness should be verified.