Pawpaws prevent predictability: A locally-dominant tree alters understory beta-diversity and community assembly

Data used in "Pawpaws Prevent Predictability: A locally-dominant tree alters understory beta-diversity and community assembly" (Wassel and Myers) accepted for publication in Ecosphere.Metadata for Zenodo.pdf contains more information on the following data files including descriptions of the columns. 

The file understory_abundance_data2021.csv contains all species abundances in 1x1m plots. This data was used for analyses in publication. Each row is a plot, each column is a speceis or plot descriptor, values for columns 5 and higher are species abundances. Data was collected July-August 2021 by Anna Wassel in Missouri, USA. 

The file understory_species_list2021.csv contains a list of the species codes used in the first file with their scientific names and their status as herbs or woody. This was used to filter out herbaceous species from the data set for herbaceous-only analyses.