Data files

Data necessary to fit three generalized dissimilarity models with field collected data on 19 biotic and abiotic response variables (n = 2017 plots), and geographic and environmental gradients described by remotely sensed predictor variables. The three models target ecosystem (joint biotic and abiotic), biotic, and abiotic levels of ecological organization, and were designed to predict continuous spatial turnover among combinations of both biotic and or abiotic properties. Model outputs can be mapped to reveal how spatially structured relationships among biotic and abiotic ecosystem properties collectively give rise to patterns of ecosystem geography. Overall, this approach enables prediction of the shared and independent components and determinants of ecosystem heterogeneity at regional extents.