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This dataset contains plot-level observations of aboveground biomass, community-weighted mean (CWM) plant traits, trait coverage metrics, and environmental variables across grassland sites compiled from the Nutrient Network (NutNet). Data collection followed the standardized Nutrient Network protocols described in Borer et al. (2014). This dataset contains only data from the unmanipulated control plots (1m-2) within the Nutrient Network. For each site, we selected the year of pre-treatment data, that is, the year before the experimental treatment was started in adjacent experimental Treatment plots. All community-level belowground trait data was calculated based on community-level vegetation composition (quantified in % species coverage per plot) derived from the respective databases. All trait data derived from the UNDERPLOT database. Each row represents one plot in one year. The subset containing data from the Nutrient Network (NutNet) used in this study is published separately from the main dataset (see related works below) due to network data sharing policies. Project Personnel of the Nutrient Network (NutNet): Elizabeth Borer and Eric Seabloom; NutNet raw data used: "full-cover_2025-01-31.csv", "comb-by-plot_2025-01-31.csv" This work was generated using data from the Nutrient Network experiment, funded at the site-scale by individual researchers. Coordination and data management have been supported by funding to E. Borer and E. Seabloom from the National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network (NSF-DEB-1042132) and Long Term Ecological Research (NSF-DEB-1831944 and NSF-DEB-2425352) programs, and the Institute on the Environment (DG-0001-13). We also thank the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences and the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute for hosting project data and the Institute on the Environment for hosting Network meetings.Notes
External OrganisationsNutrient Network (NutNet); University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Minnesota; Utah State University; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Wake Forest University; New Mexico State University; University of Turku; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Agricultural University of Iceland; Iowa State University; USDA Agricultural Research Service Manhattan; The University of Tromsø; University of Colorado at Boulder; The Arctic University of Norway; National Research Council; Colorado State University; Michigan State University; Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; University of Queensland; University of Toronto; Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife; The University of Melbourne; Universidad de Buenos Aires; University of San Diego; University of New Mexico; Dartmouth College; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Wisconsin-Madison; DOI Alaska Climate Science Center; University of Nebraska at Omaha; Trinity College Dublin; Lanzhou Jiaotong University; MPG Ranch; Lund University; Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena; Leipzig University; University of Oulu; ETH Zurich; University of Pretoria Mammal Research Institute; Leuphana University Lüneburg; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Utrecht University; Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Reseach Reserve; University of Oxford; University of Tartu; Western University; Michigan Technological University; Department of Environmental Systems Sciences; Carl-von-Ossietzky University; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics; University of Bayreuth; United States Department of Agriculture; University of Iceland; University of Tsukuba; University of Saint Thomas; University of KwaZulu-Natal; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; International Business School Suzhou at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; University of North Carolina Greensboro; Oregon State University; Marist College; University of Illinois; National University of Mongolia; University of Guelph; Texas State University; McDaniel College; University of Kentucky; Loughborough University; University of North Carolina; Northern Arizona University; La Trobe University; Benedictine College; Universidad de Cádiz; Brown University; University of Houston; National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, South Korea; Snow and Landscape Research; Western Sydney University; US Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center; Sorbonne Universite; Lanzhou University; CSIRO; University of Extremadura; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Centre for Biological Sciences India; Texas Tech University; Universidad Nacional del Comahue Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Murdoch University; Lancaster University; University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Life Sciences; Sociedad Argentina de Informatica (SADIO); Minnesota State University Moorhead; University of Nebraska; University of Toronto Scarborough; University of British Columbia; Duke University; Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology Research Institute; Xinjiang Agricultural University; Virginia Commonwealth University; Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research ZALF; São Paulo Estate University; The State University of New Jersey; University of São Paulo; CNRS; Wageningen University & Research; University of Central Florida; University of Wyoming; Institute of Ecology and Botany; Wagenigen; Cochrane South Africa; North-West University; Harvard Forest
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Elizabeth Borer (Creator); Eric Seabloom (Creator); Ingrid Slette (Creator); Anita Porath-Krause (Creator); Peter Wilfahrt (Creator); Ashley Asmus (Creator); Eric Lind (Creator); Lydia O'Halloran (Creator); Peter B. Adler (Creator); Munemitsu Akasaka (Creator); Juan Alberti (Creator); T. Michael Anderson (Creator); John Anderson (Creator); Hector Bahamonde (Creator); Jonathan Bakker (Creator); Elisabeth Bakker (Creator); Isabel C Barrio (Creator); Lori Biederman (Creator); Dana Blumenthal (Creator); Hanna Böhner (Creator); WILLIAM BOWMAN (Creator); Kari Anne Bråthen (Creator); Francesca Bretzel (Creator); Cynthia Brown (Creator); Lars Brudvig (Creator); CARLOS MARTIN BRUSCHETTI (Creator); Yvonne Buckley (Creator); Marc Cadotte (Creator); Clinton Carbutt (Creator); Jane Catford (Creator); Enrique Chaneton (Creator); Elsa Cleland (Creator); Scott Collins (Creator); Kathryn Cottingham (Creator); Carla D'Antonio (Creator); Pedro Daleo (Creator); Ellen Damschen (Creator); KENDI DAVIES (Creator); Nicole DeCrappeo (Creator); Timothy Dickson (Creator); Ian Donohue (Creator); Guozhen Du (Creator); Mary Ellyn DuPre (Creator); Ciara Dwyer (Creator); Anne Ebeling (Creator); Nico Eisenhauer (Creator); Anu Eskelinen (Creator); Philip Fay (Creator); Sabine Güsewell (Creator); Nicole Hagenah (Creator); Sylvia Haider (Creator); W Stanley Harpole (Creator); Yann Hautier (Creator); Grey Hayes (Creator); Andrew Hector (Creator); Aveliina Helm (Creator); Hugh A. L. Henry (Creator); Erika Hersch-Green (Creator); Janneke Hille Ris Lambers (Creator); Helmut Hillebrand (Creator); Kirsten Hofmockel (Creator); Karen Holl (Creator); Khishigbayar Jamiyansharav (Creator); Anke Jentsch (Creator); Jonathan Spiess (Creator); Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir (Creator); Taku Kadoya (Creator); Adam Kay (Creator); Kevin Kirkman (Creator); Julia Klein (Creator); Alan Knapp (Creator); Tiffany Knight (Creator); Johannes M H Knops (Creator); Kimberly Komatsu (Creator); Laura Ladwig (Creator); John Lambrinos (Creator); Ramesh Laungani (Creator); Andrew Leakey (Creator); Ylva Lekberg (Creator); Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva (Creator); Andrew S MacDougall (Creator); Jason Martina (Creator); Holly Martinson (Creator); Rebecca McCulley (Creator); Brett Melbourne (Creator); Jonathan Millett (Creator); Charles Mitchell (Creator); Rachel Mitchell (Creator); John Morgan (Creator); Brent Mortensen (Creator); Jim Nelson (Creator); Raúl Ochoa-Hueso (Creator); Timothy Ohlert (Creator); Devyn Orr (Creator); John Orrock (Creator); Brooke Osborne (Creator); Janet Paper (Creator); Meelis Pärtel (Creator); Steven Pennings (Creator); Pablo Luis Peri (Creator); Noémie Pichon (Creator); Sally Power (Creator); Suzanne Prober (Creator); David Pyke (Creator); Xavier Raynaud (Creator); Zhengwei Ren (Creator); Anna Richards (Creator); Anita C. Risch (Creator); Victor Rolo (Creator); Christiane Roscher (Creator); Anvar (Creator); Mahesh Sankaran (Creator); Martin Schuetz (Creator); TIM SEASTEDT (Creator); Melinda Smith (Creator); Nicholas Smith (Creator); Karina Speziale (Creator); Marie Spohn (Creator); Rachel Standish (Creator); Carly Stevens (Creator); Lauren L. Sullivan (Creator); Michelle Tedder (Creator); Pedro M. Tognetti (Creator); Francesca Vannucchi (Creator); Ciska Veen (Creator); Risto Virtanen (Creator); Alison Wallace (Creator); David Wedin (Creator); Arthur Weiss (Creator); George Wheeler (Creator); E M Wolkovich (Creator); Justin Wright (Creator); Laura Yahdjian (Creator); Hillary Young (Creator); Xiaolong Zhou (Creator); Julie Zinnert (Creator); Karl Andraczek (Creator); Joana Bergmann (Creator); Aline Bertolosi Bombo (Creator); Helge Bruelheide (Creator); Ying Fan (Creator); Alessandra Fidelis (Creator); Grégoire Freschet (Creator); Justus Hennecke (Creator); Cody Howard (Creator); Saheed Jimoh (Creator); Jitka Klimesova (Creator); Daniel Laughlin (Creator); Liesje Mommer (Creator); Tsumbedzo Ramalevha (Creator); Frances Siebert (Creator); Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila (Creator); Alexandra Weigelt (Creator); Ingrid Slette (Contributor)
Elizabeth Borer (Creator); Eric Seabloom (Creator); Ingrid Slette (Creator); Anita Porath-Krause (Creator); Peter Wilfahrt (Creator); Ashley Asmus (Creator); Eric Lind (Creator); Lydia O'Halloran (Creator); Peter B. Adler (Creator); Munemitsu Akasaka (Creator); Juan Alberti (Creator); T. Michael Anderson (Creator); John Anderson (Creator); Hector Bahamonde (Creator); Jonathan Bakker (Creator); Elisabeth Bakker (Creator); Isabel C Barrio (Creator); Lori Biederman (Creator); Dana Blumenthal (Creator); Hanna Böhner (Creator); WILLIAM BOWMAN (Creator); Kari Anne Bråthen (Creator); Francesca Bretzel (Creator); Cynthia Brown (Creator); Lars Brudvig (Creator); CARLOS MARTIN BRUSCHETTI (Creator); Yvonne Buckley (Creator); Marc Cadotte (Creator); Clinton Carbutt (Creator); Jane Catford (Creator); Enrique Chaneton (Creator); Elsa Cleland (Creator); Scott Collins (Creator); Kathryn Cottingham (Creator); Carla D'Antonio (Creator); Pedro Daleo (Creator); Ellen Damschen (Creator); KENDI DAVIES (Creator); Nicole DeCrappeo (Creator); Timothy Dickson (Creator); Ian Donohue (Creator); Guozhen Du (Creator); Mary Ellyn DuPre (Creator); Ciara Dwyer (Creator); Anne Ebeling (Creator); Nico Eisenhauer (Creator); Anu Eskelinen (Creator); Philip Fay (Creator); Sabine Güsewell (Creator); Nicole Hagenah (Creator); Sylvia Haider (Creator); W Stanley Harpole (Creator); Yann Hautier (Creator); Grey Hayes (Creator); Andrew Hector (Creator); Aveliina Helm (Creator); Hugh A. L. Henry (Creator); Erika Hersch-Green (Creator); Janneke Hille Ris Lambers (Creator); Helmut Hillebrand (Creator); Kirsten Hofmockel (Creator); Karen Holl (Creator); Khishigbayar Jamiyansharav (Creator); Anke Jentsch (Creator); Jonathan Spiess (Creator); Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir (Creator); Taku Kadoya (Creator); Adam Kay (Creator); Kevin Kirkman (Creator); Julia Klein (Creator); Alan Knapp (Creator); Tiffany Knight (Creator); Johannes M H Knops (Creator); Kimberly Komatsu (Creator); Laura Ladwig (Creator); John Lambrinos (Creator); Ramesh Laungani (Creator); Andrew Leakey (Creator); Ylva Lekberg (Creator); Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva (Creator); Andrew S MacDougall (Creator); Jason Martina (Creator); Holly Martinson (Creator); Rebecca McCulley (Creator); Brett Melbourne (Creator); Jonathan Millett (Creator); Charles Mitchell (Creator); Rachel Mitchell (Creator); John Morgan (Creator); Brent Mortensen (Creator); Jim Nelson (Creator); Raúl Ochoa-Hueso (Creator); Timothy Ohlert (Creator); Devyn Orr (Creator); John Orrock (Creator); Brooke Osborne (Creator); Janet Paper (Creator); Meelis Pärtel (Creator); Steven Pennings (Creator); Pablo Luis Peri (Creator); Noémie Pichon (Creator); Sally Power (Creator); Suzanne Prober (Creator); David Pyke (Creator); Xavier Raynaud (Creator); Zhengwei Ren (Creator); Anna Richards (Creator); Anita C. Risch (Creator); Victor Rolo (Creator); Christiane Roscher (Creator); Anvar (Creator); Mahesh Sankaran (Creator); Martin Schuetz (Creator); TIM SEASTEDT (Creator); Melinda Smith (Creator); Nicholas Smith (Creator); Karina Speziale (Creator); Marie Spohn (Creator); Rachel Standish (Creator); Carly Stevens (Creator); Lauren L. Sullivan (Creator); Michelle Tedder (Creator); Pedro M. Tognetti (Creator); Francesca Vannucchi (Creator); Ciska Veen (Creator); Risto Virtanen (Creator); Alison Wallace (Creator); David Wedin (Creator); Arthur Weiss (Creator); George Wheeler (Creator); E M Wolkovich (Creator); Justin Wright (Creator); Laura Yahdjian (Creator); Hillary Young (Creator); Xiaolong Zhou (Creator); Julie Zinnert (Creator); Karl Andraczek (Creator); Joana Bergmann (Creator); Aline Bertolosi Bombo (Creator); Helge Bruelheide (Creator); Ying Fan (Creator); Alessandra Fidelis (Creator); Grégoire Freschet (Creator); Justus Hennecke (Creator); Cody Howard (Creator); Saheed Jimoh (Creator); Jitka Klimesova (Creator); Daniel Laughlin (Creator); Liesje Mommer (Creator); Tsumbedzo Ramalevha (Creator); Frances Siebert (Creator); Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila (Creator); Alexandra Weigelt (Creator); Ingrid Slette (Contributor)
Created: 2026-05-07 to 2026-05-07
Issued: 2026-05-07
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- DOI : 10.5281/ZENODO.20070363
- global : a5e606ff-4a9b-435d-8a22-cbdd3cf549a2
