README file for data associated with: Rodriguez-Barrera, G., Kühn, I., Estrada-Castillón, E., Cord, A. (2022) Grassland type and seasonal effects have a bigger influence on plant functional and taxonomical diversity than prairie dog disturbances in semi-arid grasslands Contact person: Gabriela Rodriguez-Barrera (gabbi.rdzb@gmail.com) The authors ask that they be contacted before publishing work using the following datasets. When using the following dataset please cite the original paper as well as the data repository. This repository contain an excel file with 4 sheets containing vegetation trait and cover data. No data is n/a. ###################################################################################################################### sheet 2: traitlist-references Includes references for all categorical traits for obtained form literature for each species. As well as information on the symbol, order, family and genus for each species. Missing trait information is left in blank. The list of colums are as follows: species, synonym, frequency, Symbol USDA database, Symbol Jornada-LTER database, Genus, Order, Family, Group, Life history, Citation for life history, Growth form, citation for growth form, Photosynthetic pathway, citation for photosynthetic pathway, Flower presence (measured from field and not used in Rodriguez-Barrera et al. 2022), Habit (measured on field), Height (measured on field), measured individuals for height, LA (Leaf area), Measured individuals for leaf area, Full references for all traits obtained from literature. sheet 3: leafarea Includes individual leaf area measures for each species obtained on the field, with data of the season, site and grassland type (based on classification from Rodriguez-Barrera etal. 2022). sheet 4: species-traits-cover-persite Includes data for all species, their traits and total cover for each site, including season, prairie dog condition and grassland type (based on Rodriguez-Barrera et al. 2022). Sheet name Variable name (code) traitlist-references Species traitlist-references Syonym traitlist-references Frequency traitlist-references Symbol USDA database traitlist-references Symbol Jorda-LTER databse traitlist-references Genus traitlist-references Order traitlist-references Family traitlist-references Group traitlist-references Life history traitlist-references Growth form traitlist-references Photosynthetic pathway traitlist-references Flower presence traitlist-references Habit traitlist-references Height traitlist-references Measured individuals for height traitlist-references LA traitlist-references Measured leaves for LA traitlist-references Citation traitlist-references Full references species-traits-cover-persite Grassland type species-traits-cover-persite Site species-traits-cover-persite Site code species-traits-cover-persite Condition species-traits-cover-persite Season species-traits-cover-persite Species species-traits-cover-persite Species in functional diversity analysis(no NAs) species-traits-cover-persite Family species-traits-cover-persite Life history species-traits-cover-persite Growth form species-traits-cover-persite Status species-traits-cover-persite Photosynthesis pathway species-traits-cover-persite Flower species-traits-cover-persite Habit species-traits-cover-persite Height species-traits-cover-persite Leaf area species-traits-cover-persite Total cover leafarea Grassland type leafarea Site leafarea Condition leafarea Season leafarea Date leafarea Species leafarea Leaf area