Plant communities, grazing intensity, soil properties and decomposers in grasslands across elevation in the Eastern Carpathians in Ukraine

This data set contains information on plant community properties, grazing intensity, elevation, soil properties and density of soil decomposers collected in 2006 and 2007 from the 31 semi-natural grasslands exposed to cattle grazing along elevation gradient at large topographic scale ranging from the Carpathian Mountains, across the adjacent foothills to the plain areas. Plant community properties are represented by the following variables for each of the 31 study grassland: number of species (species number 100 m-2), number of functional groups 100 m-2 (that is, legumes, grasses, rushes and sedges, and non-legume forbs), proportion of undesirable weeds (%), number of species of legumes (species number 100 m-2), number of species of grasses (species number 100 m-2), number of species of rushes and sedges (species number 100 m-2), and number of non-legume forbs (species number 100 m-2). Grazing intensity is measured as cattle density (livestock units h-1). Soil properties are represented...