Parental environment nitrogen and phosphorus availability affects offspring traits of eight annual plant species

The rates in which nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are entering natural plant communities have reached unprecedented levels, resulting in increasingly imbalanced N:P ratios potentially aggravating both plant invasions and plant extinctions. Plants may cope with changing environments via phenotypic plasticity, which may occur within one generation or between generations (transgenerational plasticity, TGP). Here, we investigated TGP in plant traits in response to variation in N and P availabilities, in eight annual plant species comprising endangered, nonendangered and invasive species. We hypothesized that adaptive effects would be evident when parental and offspring environments match. We also expected endangered species to exhibit the lowest, and invasive species the highest, adaptive TGP-potential. A parental generation was raised under N-limitation, balanced nutrient supply and P-limitation, from which an offspring generation was grown under either the same or another option of these..., , , # Parental environment nitrogen and phosphorus availability affects offspring traits of eight annual plant species

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w8x](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w8x)

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset relates to the article “Parental environment nitrogen and phosphorus availability affects offspring traits of eight annual plant species” accepted for publication in Oikos (doi: 10.1111/oik.10993), by Vanessa Minden, Koen J.F. Verhoeven and Harry Olde Venterink.

Corresponding author Vanessa Minden, email: [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

The dataset contains plant trait information of 8 annual species (grasses and non legume-forbs). 

A parental generation was raised under N (nitrogen) limitation, balanced nutrient supply and P (phosphorus) limitation, from which an offspring generation was grown under either the same or another option of these nutrient conditions. Plants of both the parental and offspring ge...