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INTRODUCTION
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“Co-occurring intertidal ecosystem engineers with opposing growth strategies show opposite responses to environmental gradients during establishment”

Running title: Environment and morphology determine establishment success

Authors: Van de Ven, C.N., van der Heide, T., Bouma, T.J., IJzerloo, L., Lindhout, D.D., Reijers, V.C. 
 
Version: XX-03-2024
 
This readme file describes the data accompanying the above publication. For any further queries please contact: 
clea.van.de.ven@nioz.nl
 
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CONTENT
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All Datafiles contain header descriptions to explain variables. 
 
Files of a field experiment conducted in the Dutch delta. The experiment ran between June and October 2020: 

- Datafile ‘PublicData_zeeland 2020.xlsx’

Sheet ‘TransplantData_all_survival’; rows represent all individual transplants (dead and alive) that were present at the start of the experiment (n = 320), separated by species, planting location (or just location) and donor origin (or donorlocation). Survival at end of the experiment is indicated with a binary survival score. Survival was analysed using the binary score (glm) and by calculating percent survival per treatment (species x donor origin x planting location).

Sheet ‘TransplantData_aliveplantsonly’; rows represent all individual transplants that were alive at the end of the experiment. This dat was used for analysis of surviving transplants (shoot number increase, circumference, biomass ratio).

Sheet ‘Location Data’ shows the mean ± SE of location characteristics. This data was used for the principal component analysis. 

Sheet ‘PCA scores’; This sheet contains the PCA scores of individual observations when including the environmental variables grain size, percent silt, organic matter, totalN, PO4, elevation, TideSkip, Fmax, Fmod and salinity. Scores represent the coordinates of individual observations (= locations in our case) on the principal components.