Experimental manipulation of scavenger and herbivore functional role and their effects on plant communities following mass mortality events

We designed an experiment to measure the relative importance of bottom-up forces (nutrient addition) and top-down forces (impairment of obligate scavenger and herbivore functional roles) generated by experimental carrion deployment to simulate mass mortality events on the local plant community. In our experimental plots, we measured changes in plant functional groups before and for three years after experimental carrion deployment. Additionally, we monitored cherrybark oak (Quercus pagoda) seedlings' growth and survival three years after being transplanted in the experimental plots. , , Details for each dataset are provided in the README file.
Datasets include:

Plant community transects run before carrion deployment, and one and two years after carrion deployment

Experimental treatments of experimental plots
Year of data collection
Plant functional group abundance

Plant community quadrats run three years after carrion deployment

Experimental treatments of experimental plots
Plant functional group abundance

Growth of transplanted cherrybark oak seedlings three years after experimental carrion deployment

Experimental treatments of experimental plots
Length of cherrybark oak seedlings

Survival of transplanted cherrybark oak seedlings three years after experimental carrion deployment

Experimental treatments of experimental plots
Survival of cherrybark oak seedlingsÂ