Warming conditions reduce the impacts of an aquatic invasive macrophyte across a latitudinal gradient

The study evaluates the dynamics of a invasions by the aquatic invasive freshwater macroalga, Nitellopsis obtusa, in lakes across the upper Midwest of the US. Using interannual variability and a latitudinal gradient as a proxy for future climate change we assess the interaction between two global change stressors: climate change and biological invasions. This dataset includes all underlying data and code used for all analyses presented in the article the creation of all data figures. The data includes locations of sampling locations, field data on plant community composition and abundance, and climate data for sampling sites used to quantify annual conditions. All analysis code is written in the R statistical programing languge. 
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Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.qrfj6q5vf](10.5061/dryad.qrfj6q5vf)

## Description of the data and file structure

This data package accompanies the Journal of Ecology paper:

Muthukrishnan, R. and Kalinowski, C. 2025. Warming conditions reduce the impacts of an aquatic invasive macrophyte across a latitudinal gradient

### Files and variables

#### File: Muthukrishnan_and_Kalinowski_2025_Journal_of_Ecology_dataset.zip

**Description:** 

Within the compressed archive (Muthukrishnan_and_Kalinowski_2025_Journal_of_Ecology_dataset.zip) are a series of data files and R scripts that will load and process all relevant data, run analyses and produce statistical results and figures that are reported in the associated manuscript. When expanded the archive will create a file structure with all analysis scripts in the \"src\" subfolder, data files in the \"data\" subfolder, and additional ...,