Data from: Is the vegetation archetype of the Garden of Eden located in the Irano-Turanian region and safe against climate change?

This data contain following files:<b>vegetation_data </b>- data from vegetation plots (releves) with vegetation cover on the Braun-Blanquet scale;<b>usefulness </b>- evaluation of species in terms of their usefulness;<b>edible_species_traits</b> - edible species traits that can reflect the difference between attractive or useless plant communities for ancient people;<b>ethnobotanical_references</b> - sources of data on useful properties of plant species;<b>veg_coord_maxent </b>- .data used for modelling the potential distribution of the selected vegetation (<i>Pistacia khinjuk</i> groves, <i>Pistacia vera</i> groves and <i>Punica granatum</i> shrubs) with MAXENT.