Data and code for Deilmann et al. 2025. "Forest floor vegetation contributes to a reduction in nitrogen fluxes in temperate forest understories".

This dataset contains all raw data and code used in the study to produce figures and analyses as can be seen in the publication. Raw data contains measurements on inorganic nitrogen fluxes in soil solution under the organic layer of undisturbed vegetation plots, throughfall fluxes, weekly vegetation surveys of herbaceous and moss species, and functional trait data of specific leaf area (SLA) and plant height of herbaceous species. Data was collected in six forest stands of three temperate forest types (beech, spruce, pine) in the Saale-Elster-Sandsteinplatte Observatory (SESO) in Central Germany in 2022 until 2023. For reproducibility, all R code is included that was used for the publication.