Exogenous disturbances and endogenous self-organized processes are not mutually exclusive drivers of spatial patterns in macroalgal assemblages

Data from the 2-yrs manipulative experiments investigating role of exogenous and endogenous processes in emergence of spatial patterns in a rocky intertidal macroalgal assemblage. The csv files contain high-resolution of data of the % cover of Cystoseira compressa and algal turfs.Heatmaps.R - R script for plotting heatmaps of percentage cover data of C. Compressa and algal turfs, as in Fig. 3Correlograms.R - R script for deriving average correlograms of C. Compressa and algal turfs cover for different experimental condition.Signatures of self-organization.R - R script for selecting the best fitting models of patch (or gap) size distributions with the R package “spatialwarnings” (version 1.3.1).plot small-scale recovery of C.compressa.R.