<b>Nitrogen addition alleviates the adverse effects of drought on plant productivity in a temperate steppe</b>

# N-Dr dataset<br>Data associated with the following paper：Title: Nitrogen addition alleviates the adverse effects of drought on plant productivity in a temperate steppe Author: Yonghong Luo, Lan Du, Jiatao Zhang, Haiyan Ren, Yan Shen, Jinbao Zhang, Na Li, Ru Tian, Shan Wang, Heyong Liu, Zhuwen XuJournal: Ecological Applications<br>Description of the data and file structureThe uploaded .csv file includes means of variables calculated across the sampling period (2019-2021) (N-Dr dataset.csv).<br>Description of variables included in N-Dr dataset.csv:* Block (categorical data): Block\* Drought (categorical data): Drought treatment, D0 for ambient precipitation, D1 for excluding precipitation in June in each year, D2 for reducing half precipitation amount from June to August in each year, D3 for reducing half precipitation frequency without changing precipitation amount from June to August in each year\* Nitrogen (categorical data): Nitrogen addition treatment, N0 for ambient nitrogen and N1 for addition of 10 g N m-2 yr-1;\* SM (continuous data): Soil moisture;\* Soil IN (continuous data): Soil inorganic nitrogen concentration;\* NRI (continuous data): The net relatedness index;\* Species richness (continuous data): Species richness;\* FDis (continuous data): Functional dispersion;\* CWMPH (continuous data): Community weighted mean of plant stature;\ * CWMLA (continuous data): Community weighted mean of leaf area;\* CWMSLA (continuous data): Community weighted mean of specific leaf area;\* CWMLDMC (continuous data): Community weighted mean of leaf dry matter content (LDMC);\* CWMSDMC (continuous data): Community weighted mean of stem dry matter content (SDMC);\* CWMSLR (continuous data): Community weighted mean of stem leaf ratio (SLR);\* CWMLN (continuous data): Community weighted mean of leaf nitrogen concentration (LN);\* ANPP (continuous data): Community aboveground net primary productivity;\