Dataset for Disturbance: a double-edged sword for restoration in a changing climate: Western Oregon and Washington upland prairies 2019-2020

Data associated with the paper submitted to Restoration Ecology in November 2021: Disturbance: a double-edged sword for restoration in a changing climate Alejandro Brambila1, Paul B. Reed1, Scott D. Bridgham1, Bitty A. Roy1, Bart R. Johnson2, Laurel Pfeifer-Meister1 and Lauren M. Hallett1 1. Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon 2. Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon In this project, we used this data to test how fire disturbance, designed to enhance restoration seeding success, combines with climate and initial vegetation conditions to shift perennial versus annual grass dominance and overall community diversity in Pacific Northwest grasslands. We seeded both native and introduced perennial grasses and native forbs in paired, replicated burned-unburned plots in three sites along a latitudinal climate gradient from southern Oregon to Washington. Past restoration and climate manipulations at each site had increased the variation of starting conditions between plots. This data is to be used with the script, full_disturbance_script.R, which can be accessed at https://github.com/HallettLab/hops. Includes the tables: plotkey.csv spkey.csv mixkey.csv vegplot.csv vegplot2020.csv