Abundance data on European plants (2.5-min raster size)

<b>Short introduction:</b>The here provided excel-file contains all information to reproduce the results from our study on the relationship between vascular plant species fine-grain (local) abundance and coarse-grain geographic distribution and/or climatic niche.<br><b>Publication: </b>(Sporbert et al.: Local abundance is largely unrelated to coarse-grain distribution and climatic niches in European plants. under revision)<br> <b>Location: </b>Europe<br> <b>Taxon: </b>Vascular plants<br> <b>Methods: </b>Distribution range maps of 517 vascular plant species from the Chorological Database Halle were used to capture Europe-wide geographic ranges and derive climatic niches of these species. We used data from 744,513 vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive where local species abundance was measured as plant cover per plot. Centrality was calculated per species for each plot in geographic and climatic space. Climatic suitability at plot locations was predicted from coarse-grain species distribution models (SDMs). The general relationship between centrality and climatic suitability with abundance was tested with linear models. Quantile regression was used to examine the relationships of centrality and climatic suitability to upper limits of abundance. We summarized the overall trend across species slopes from linear models and quantile regression using a meta-analytical approach.<br><b>Short despcription of the dataset:</b>The dataset contains information on:Species name; results from regression analysis; number of vegetation plots occupied per species; percentage amount of species Eurasian distribution range; range size niche size; calculated mean abundance and calculated standard deviation from all vegetation plots occupied per species<br><br><b>Detailed information:</b> can be found in the attached metafile<br>