Legacy effects of flooding duration on growth and reproductive traits of Carex cinerascens Kük. in the Poyang Lake wetland

Alteration of flooding regimes due to global change may have cascading effects on plant community composition and associated ecosystem services. Here, we experimentally investigated the effects of six flooding regimes with contrasting combinations of flooding duration (5.5, 6, and 6.5 months) and submergence rate (from 3.3 to 17.5 cm/day) on the growth and reproductive traits of Carex cinerascens, a dominant plant species of the Poyang Lake wetland in southern China. The time span of this study included a summer flooding event and the following growing seasons (autumn of first year and spring of following year) before the return of the next flooding event. The six flooding treatments affected plant traits during the flooding and the following growing seasons, but the different submergence rates under the same flooding duration did generally not show significant influence on plant traits. The 6.5-month flooding treatments had many fewer old (0.4 on average) and new stems (1 on average) t..., , # Legacy effects of flooding duration on growth and reproductive traits of Carex cinerascens Kük. in the Poyang Lake wetland

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.q573n5tv7](10.5061/dryad.q573n5tv7)

## Description of the data and file structure

Full dataset from the published article used to create figures and statistical analyses (results shown on figures and tables).

### Files and variables

#### File: FloodData.csv

**Description:** 

##### Variables

* sample: 1 to 36
* Treatment: Flooding (duration, submergence rate)
* Block: 1 to 3
* Replicate: 1 to 2
* SN_B: Shoot number before flooding
* LD50: Lethal time at 50% (day)
* SN_D: Shoot number during flooding
* HE_D: Shoot height during flooding (cm)
* SN_DE: Shoot number at the end of flooding
* HE_DE: Height of new shoots at end of flooding (cm)
* OSN_DE: Number of old shoots at the end of flooding
* SN_A: Shoot number in Autumn
* HE_A: Shoot height in Autumn (cm)
* DMC_A: Dry matter content in autumn (%)
* B_I_A: Biomass per individual ...,