Data from: Sekar et al. Effect of management on clonal traits and rhizome biomass in wet meadows

A long-term field experiment established in 2007 across ten wet meadows in the Železné Hory Mountains (Central Bohemia, Czech Republic) to assess the effects of mowing and fertilisation on species composition, plant biomass allocation, clonal traits, rhizome production, and soil carbon. After 15 years of continuous management treatments, vegetation, belowground biomass, clonal traits, fine-root carbon and nitrogen, and soil carbon were sampled in June 2022.

File description:
Sekar_et_al_2026_plot-level_data.csv = comma-separated values format. Data measured at the plot level. The file includes these variables: Locality, Plot_ID, Treatment_combination (control, mowing, fertilisation or both), Aboveground_biomass, Root_biomass, Rhizome_biomas, Mowing, Fertilization, Persistence_community_weighted_mean_scaled (centered and scaled by standard deviation), Multiplication_rate_community_weighted_mean_scaled (centered and scaled by standard deviation), Lateral_spread_community_weighted_mean_scaled (centered and scaled by standard deviation), Soil_nitrogen, Soil_carbon, and Soil_organic_carbon.

Sekar_et_al_2026_subplot-level_data = comma-separated values format. Data maeasured at the sbuplot level. The file includes these variables: Locality, Treatment_combination, Plot_ID, Subplot_ID, Root_nitrogen, Root_carbon, Mowing, and Fertilization.

Sekar_et_al_2026_species-plot_matrix = comma-separated values format. Community matrix (species cover per plot).

Sekar_et_al_2026_metadata_JSON_format = JSON format. Metadata describing the experiment, sampling, measured characteristics and traits, and data analysis.