Dataset: Species presence, trait and philogeny database. Data from: Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old field succession. Journal of Vegetation Science. (Q6685933)

This dataset was use in the manuscript Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old field succession publish at Journal of Vegetation Science. It contains the data of species presence at three different plots and species trait values (SLA, LDMC, height, seed weight and Phylogeny). We show that at the initial stage of succession, there is a scale-invariant pattern of trait convergence. On the contrary, in the late and intermediate stages of succession we observed that trait divergence became frequent at smaller grains and extents. The trend along the chronosequence is consistent with the theoretical hypothesis that predicts a shift from convergence to divergence along succession.