Vieira et al. - Founders richness and late-stage community Data.xlsx

This dataset was used to follow diversity and community structure at experimental units founded by single or multiple species, testing the following hypothesis: 1) species diversity at late-stage is positively affected by founders diversity and 2) the occurence of exotic species is negatively affected by founders diversity. To test the generality of these hypothesis, we used three different common groups in subtidal sessile communities: colonial ascidias, arborescent bryozoans and encrusting bryozoans. Dataset show richness of taxa, cover area as a proxy of relative abundance, the occurence of founder species on high and low founder richness treatments along succession, and the occurence of exotic species at late-stage succession.