Dataset supporting "Beyond species richness: contrasting responses of herbaceous plant communities to land use and climate in Mediterranean central Chile"

This dataset contains the data used in the analyses presented in the manuscript “Beyond species richness: contrasting responses of herbaceous plant communities to land use and climate in Mediterranean central Chile”. The study evaluated herbaceous plant communities across 21 sites representing three contrasting land-use trajectories in the Espinal ecosystem of central Chile: abandoned Espinal, grazed Espinal, and vineyards established on former Espinal areas. The dataset includes site and plot identifiers, land-use categories, plant species occurrence data, species classifications by origin, life cycle and functional group, climatic variables for the 1993–2022 climatological period and the 2023 sampling year, and soil physicochemical variables.