Land-use impacts on plant functional diversity throughout Europe

Aim: Global biodiversity loss resulting from anthropogenic land-use activities is a pressing concern, requiring precise assessments of impacts at large spatial extents. Existing models mainly focus on species richness and abundance, lacking insights into ecological mechanisms and species' roles in ecosystem functioning. To bridge this gap, we conducted an extensive analysis of the impact of human land use on vascular plant functional diversity, across diverse land-use classes and bioregions in Europe, comparing it to traditional metrics.
Location: Europe           Time period: 1992-2019                           Major taxa studied: Vascular plants
Methods: Integrating extensive databases of vegetation plots with spatial data on land use and land cover, we paired plots from areas actively used and modified by humans with plots from natural habitats under similar environmental conditions. Using species occurrences and traits, in each plot we computed three complementary functional diversi..., , , # Land-use impacts on plant functional diversity throughout Europe

## Description of the data and file structure

**S10.2**

S10.2_plot_attributes_row_wise.csv

.csv file containing the numerical values of proportion of species with traits, geographical distance, plot size and corresponding relative values for the vegetation plots considered in the study. This is an input file for the script main.R. The list of columns is available here below.

| Name | Description | Original from EVA/sPlot (\*) or calculated/derived/ assigned in the study (\*\*) |
| :------------------------------ | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| PlotObservationID | ID code of each vegetation plot sampled in anthropogenic land | \* ...