Resource description:
This study utilises data collected from dry and mesic abandoned fields between 1975 and 2019. A data set of 129 chronosequence vegetation samples (54 dry and 75 mesic plots) and 26 samples from six semi-permanent plots (11 dry and 15 mesic) with different repetitions were analysed. Plot age (since abandonment) varied from 1 to 91 years for chronosequences and up to 99 years for semi-permanent data. Moreover, we compared the rate of succession between dry and mesic series using Bray–Curtis dissimilarity. We used a generalised linear mixed model to study the relationship between the cover of different functional groups and the age of abandoned fields.
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The Author(s). Journal of Vegetation Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association for Vegetation Science.