Climatic resilience after extreme drought in Mediterranean shrubland plant communities

Extreme climatic events are increasing with climate change, producing changes in communities climatic characterization. So, mismatches between climatic conditions inferred from species requirements (Community Inferred Climate, CIC) and macroclimate (climatic disequilibrium, CD) may change with extreme climatic events. Climatic resilience is defined as the ability to maintain or recover community climatic characteristics, regardless of species identity, after disturbance or stress. We evaluated the dynamics of plant community climatic characterization in Mediterranean shrublands that experienced a drought event, considering CIC and CD. CIC was calculated by averaging species’ climatic niche centroids, weighted by species' relative abundances, in the multivariate environmental space obtained from the climate of the species' geographical occurrence. CD was estimated as Euclidean distance in this space between the observed macroclimate and CIC. Climatic resistance was inferred by the distan..., , , # Climatic resilience after extreme drought in Mediterranean shrubland plant communities

\"**work_ext.zip**\" contains the vector boundary (work_extension.shp and auxiliary files dbf, .shx, .prj) used to define the study region for climatic niche modeling. The spatial mask delimits the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Longitude: -18.64°W to 37.29°E; Latitude: 26.70°N to 56.34°N), optimizing computational efficiency by restricting analyses to the area where the study species were distributed.

\"**species_centroid.csv**\" contains the centroids' coordinates in the common climatic space (PCA1 and PCA2) for all the studied species.

* \"species\": valid scientific name of the studied species
* \"centroid_pca1\": axis 1 coordinate in the common climatic space for each studied species
* \"centroid_pca2\": axis 2 coordinate in the common climatic space for each studied species

\"**Interannual_observed_climate.csv**\" contains the 12 biovariable values for the study plot positions for the refer...,