Successful recovery of native plants post-invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features

Temperate forest understories hold the majority of the plant diversity present in these ecosystems and play an essential role in the recruitment and establishment of native trees. However, the long-term persistence of healthy forest understories is threatened by the impacts of invasive plants. As a result, a common practice is the removal of the agent of invasion. Despite this, we know little about the success of these practices and lack a comprehensive understanding of what intrinsic and extrinsic factors shape the recovery. In a multi-year field experiment, we investigated (Q1) whether native propagule availability drove native community recovery, (Q2) what the characteristics of successfully recovering communities were, and (Q3) under which environmental conditions recovery rates were faster. After initial removal of invasives, we seeded native species to manipulate assembly history and mimic restoration practices, we also implemented a repeated, vs. once, removal treatment, all in a..., , , # Data from: **Successful recovery of native plants post-invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features**

The files in DRYAD allow readers to run models to reproduce results and figures of the paper \"Successful recovery of native plants post-invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features\", currently submitted to Ecological Applications.

The code to reproduce results and figures can be found at [https://github.com/laispetri/TemperateForestRestoration.git](https://github.com/laispetri/TemperateForestRestoration.git)

## Description of the data and file structure

The code was build in RMarkdown. All packages needed are listed in the beginning of code, along with extra information on how to organize folders within the working directory.

Here is the description of the CSV files:

* \"data.csv\": ID = unique identifier per observation (integer); forest\_stand = site (character); plot = plot original number (integer); subplotOri...