Dataset of plant community composition in the Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, Oregon, USA

Bryan A Endress; Joshua P Averett

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104690

Dataset of plant community composition in the Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, Oregon, USA

Data Brief. 2019 Oct 22:27:104690. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104690. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Bryan A Endress^{1

2}, Joshua P Averett¹

Affiliations

¹ Eastern Oregon Agriculture Research Center - Union Station, Oregon State University, Union, OR, 97883, USA.
² Eastern Oregon Agriculture and Natural Resource Program, Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, Oregon State University, One University Blvd, La Grande, OR, 97850, USA.

Abstract

These data support the research article: "Non-native species threaten the biotic integrity of the largest remnant Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass prairie in the United States" Endress et al. (2019) [1].The data were collected at the Zumwalt Prairie Preserve (Zumwalt), northeastern Oregon, USA, and include vascular plant species abundance matrices from 123 plots sampled in 2008 and 2009 and the estimated abundance of dominant species in community space.

Keywords: Grassland conservation; Invasive species; Plant community ecology; Ventenata dubia.