Data and code of the MS "A dimmer shade of pale: revealing the faint signature of local assembly processes on the structure of strongly filtered plant communities" The folder contains: a) NullAssemblagesSimulation - R source code to: 1) estimate the occurrence probability of each specie based on hierarchically increasingly complex null models 2) simulate the null assemblages 3) compare the observed and expected functional diversity (RAO). Generation of Standardized Effect Sizes (SES). 4) test for significance based on i) randomization tests and ii) generalized linear mixed models b) DataSets.Rdata - R file containing the datasets of vegetation cover, functional traits and predictor variables. c) DataSets.xlsx - Excel file containing sheets with the metadata and the datasets of vegetation cover, functional traits and predictor variables.  Authors: Jesús López-Angulo, Marcelino de la Cruz, David S. Pescador, Ana M. Sánchez and Adrián Escudero