The photosynthetic pathways of plant species surveyed in Australia's national terrestrial monitoring network.

摘要: The photosynthetic pathway of plants is a fundamental trait that influences terrestrial environments from the local to global level. distribution different pathways in Australia expected undergo substantial shift due climate change and rising atmospheric CO2; however, tracking hindered by lack data on species, as well their relative cover within plant communities. Here we present for 2428 species recorded across 541 plots surveyed Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) between 2011 2017. This dataset was created facilitate research exploring trends vegetation Australia. Species were assigned using published literature stable carbon isotope analysis bulk tissue. can be extracted individually, or used conjunction with surveys study occurrence abundance continent. will updated TERN’s plot network expands new information becomes available. Machine-accessible metadata file describing reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14134994