Data and code from: Similar trait-based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences

What drives the composition of invaded communities and the local abundance of introduced species are key questions in ecology. Community-assembly theory provides a useful framework for addressing these questions. Specifically, the environmental filtering model of community assembly predicts that a species’ presence and abundance in a community depends on the interaction between its functional traits and the local environmental filters. However, for introduced species, larger-scale dispersal and introduction-related filters may restrict their regional trait pool. Here we tested  this framework using long-term data from 50+ years of old-field vegetation succession. We asked whether native and introduced plant assemblages followed the same trait-based assembly rules. We also asked whether local functional dissimilarities between the two can be explained by regional species pool differences, a possibility that has rarely been addressed. We found strong similarities in the assembly processes..., , , # Data & Code From: Similar trait-based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gxd2547ss](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gxd2547ss)

This dataset contains the community composition data from the Buell-Small Succession study ([https://www.caryinstitute.org/science/research-projects/past-projects/buell-small-succession-study)](https://www.caryinstitute.org/science/research-projects/past-projects/buell-small-succession-study\)), along with trait data gathered by Li et al. (2015) and Duffin et al. (2019), and code from Poddar et al., (in press). Older versions of the Buell-Small dataset, along with partial trait data, are available at: 1) [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fn5g2](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fn5g2) , 2) [https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.j968847](https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.j968847) . The code available here have not been previously archived.

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