Trait shifts in time and space

This is the data and script for the manuscript titled "Size traits reliably track warming, while leaf economic traits respond, more variably, to precipitation" submitted to Global Ecology and Biogeography i November 2025. The data is a set of functional traits measured in 2016 and 2017, and a dataset of community composition changes in the period 2009-2019. The "cleaning" code takes all the raw data an cleans it for analysis, the bootstrap_analysis script runs the analysis on the cleaned data, and the "Figures_TDT_paper" script makes the figures for the manuscript. The Raw data files are: LeafTraits_SeedClim = the functional traits measured in the field CNratio = the carbon and nitrogen content of different leaf samples Dict_CN = the naming dictonary to link CNratio dataset with the LeafTraits_SeedClim dataset Leaf_Area_total = leaf area measurements of the leaves comdat_2009-2019_TTC = community composition data from 2009 till 2019 of the plots in this analysis species_info & systematics_species = datasets with different kinds of information on the species AAGridedDailyClimateData2009-2019 = climate data for the sites over the study period The Cleaning script is set up so that the raw data files are in a folder in the project called "Data" and the scripts in a folder calleed "R". You need to set this up yourself, as now the files are not in folders.