Dataset for "Alien plants tend to occur in species-poor communities"

This dataset contains the list of plant species, their abundances, vegetation types, and the area of the vegetation plots analyzed in the paper titled “<strong>Alien plants tend to occur in species-poor communities</strong>” by Padullés Cubino et al. (2022; Neobiota). These data were obtained from the Czech National Phytosociological Database (Chytrý and Rafajová, 2003) (https://botzool.cz/vegsci/phytosociologicalDb). The dataset contains 2 tables: “Metadata.xlsx”: It includes a description of the fields found in "plot_species.csv". “plot_species.csv”: It includes the list of angiosperm plant taxa, their abundance cover, associated vegetation type, and the area of each vegetation plot. References: Chytrý M, Rafajová M (2003) Czech National Phytosociological Database: basic statistics of the available vegetation-plot data. Preslia 75: 1–15.