Vegetation and trait data of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Australia

Dispersal and environmental filtering processes determine plant species
colonization success on islands and can be identified by functional
traits. However, the lack of synthesis about the varying methodological
approaches in functional ecology hampers generalisation of filtering
processes across island systems. Here, we provide island-plant data for 70
islands of the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago, Western Australia as well
list species from their source pool. This data can be used to test the
predictions made in the accompanying publication as well as for any other
study requiring island-level species richness, species pool and trait
(leaf area, seed mass, plant height) data.