Data from: Species-area relationships in continuous vegetation: evidence from Palaearctic grasslands

All nested plots averaged_subsetThis dataset contains all data required to run the analyses of the publication: Dengler, J. et al. (2019). Species-area relationships in continuous vegetation: evidence from Palaearctic grasslands. Journal of Biogeography. The dataset comprises all 2057 nested-plot series with at least seven different grain sizes that were contained in the collaborative vegetation-plot database GrassPlot on 4 January 2019 (GrassPlot v.1.27). Details of the GrassPlot database are described in: Dengler, J., et al. (2018). GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands. Phytocoenologia 48: 331–347. The data are provided in csv format with semicolon as separator. The file comprises 28 columns and 28,155 rows (including the header).