Species Characteristics for 'Surface mines show little progress towards native species forest restoration following 35 years of passive management after initial reclamation'

This data set contains the taxa observed in the study along with factors: growth type, native status, and invasive status (defined in the Methods section of the manuscript). This spreadsheet was used alongside “Survey Matrix for Ruggles et al. 2020” to calculate the sum all categories for each aforementioned factors at each survey location. The result of this aggregation was the “Proportion Data for Ruggles et al. 2020” spreadsheet.