EstablishMed: a dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region

Motivation: Plant establishment is the result of sequential demographic processes, namely post-dispersal seed survival, seed germination, seedling survival and sapling survival. These processes can be quantified as transition probabilities between life stages through field experiments, and their product provides an overall establishment probability. This information is essential to understand demography within populations and plant colonization potential under global change scenarios. The Mediterranean Region constitutes a biodiversity hotspot characterised by severe summer droughts, which suppose a critical demographic bottleneck for perennial plant establishment. Despite many studies have quantified transition probabilities of woody species in this region, information is scattered through literature and has not yet been compiled. To fill this gap, we collated data from a systematic literature review and completed them with new unpublished data to create the EstablishMed dataset.
Main ..., , , # ***EstablishMed***: a dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region

**Global Ecology and Biogeography** ([https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13879)](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1c59zw44c)

Lucía Acevedo-Limón, Beatriz Rumeu, Claudio A. Bracho-Estévanez, Juan P. González-Varo.

Correspondence and request for materials should be addressed to Lucía Acevedo Limón ([[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])).

## establishmed.csv

Transition probability data of demographic processes operating during the establishment of 134 woody species from the Mediterranean Region. The dataset comprises 4728 transition probability records (rows) accompanied by variables of the spatiotemporal context (i.e., year, site, population, habitat and microhabitat) and experimental procedures employed to obtain the transition probability (e.g., degree of protection against natural enemies), as well as additional information on taxonomy, plant traits and bi...