Metadata for sript and data files

• Calculating community weighted means: Code walks through calculating community weighted means for each subplot

• Calculating nearest species metrics: Code walks through calculating nearest species distance metrics for each subplot

• Modeling community trait metrics: All models are present here (all traits by all community metrics). Plots were initiated using this code and cleaned up in inkscape as svg files

• Species traits NMS: Here we calculated and plotted species in trait space using NMS

• Subplot traits NMS: Here we calculated and plotted sublots in community weighted mean trait space using NMS

• 2020 biomass by subplot: biomass collected from 20x20cm subplots in 2020

  • plot_quad: represents the individual subplots from which biomass was collected.

    • First 4 letters refer to vegetation code (ARAR = Artemisia arbuscula = low sage steppe; ARRI = artimisia rigida= scabflat; SEEP = wet meadow)
    • Number after vegetation type references the block number (1*5)
    • "CC." indicates that these were all community plots with ventenata seed added
    • Final number indicates the number of the subplot at each plot (1*7)

  • resident_g: resident biomass (excluding ventenata) collected from within the subplots in 2020 measured in g/subplot

  • vedu_g: ventenata biomass collected from within the subplots in 2020 measured in g/subplot

• nearest species distances: nearest species distance calculated from the "Calculating nearest species metrics" script

  • plot_quad: see above

  • finerootV.totalrootV (fine root Volume to total root volume ratio)

  • height (cm)

  • N.perc (% leaf N)

  • root.shoot (root to shoot mass ratio )

  • RootAvgDiam.mm (root average diameter (mm))

  • RootLength.cm (cm)

  • SLA (specific leaf area; leaf area/ leaf mass)

  • community weighted means: Community weighted means output from the "Calculating community weighted means" script

  • plot_quad: see above

  • finerootV.totalrootV (fine root Volume to total root volume ratio)

  • height (cm)

  • N.perc (% leaf N)

  • root.shoot (root to shoot mass ratio )

  • RootAvgDiam.mm (root average diameter (mm))

  • RootLength.cm (cm)

  • SLA (specific leaf area; leaf area/ leaf mass)

  • vegtype: (ARAR = Artemisia arbuscula = low sage steppe; ARRI = artimisia rigida= scabflat; SEEP = wet meadow)

  • plot: vegetation type with block number

  • plotno: just the block number

• 2020_USDAspeciesCover_4traits_seededCommunitySubplots: Species foliar cover (values) for each subplot (row names) for each species represented by their USDA plants code (column names)

• allTraits_averagedBySpecies_USDAcodes: Averaged raw trait values for each species (row names) for each trait (column names)