DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14743464.v2
title: Increasing habitat connectivity in agricultural landscapes as a weed control strategy reconciling ecology and agronomy

description: Landscape_Matrix.txt: landscape [habitat connectivity (Connectivity) and habitat amount (Amount) provided by wooded (Woodlands), grassland (Grasslands) and cropland (Croplands) elements at 250m, 500m and 750m] matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields.<br>S_A_Matrix_Plots.txt: species abundance (i.e. percent cover per species) matrix for the ten plots performed in the 27 winter cereal fields.<br>S_A_Matrix_Plots_wo_OP5.txt: species abundance (i.e. percent cover per species) matrix for the ten plots performed in the 27 winter cereal fields after removing rare species from the dataset.<br>S_TA_Matrix_Field.txt: species total abundance (i.e. sum of the percent covers recorded in the ten plots per species) matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields.<br>S_TA_Matrix_Field_wo_OP5.txt: species total abundance (i.e. sum of the percent covers recorded in the ten plots per species) matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields after removing rare species from the dataset.<br>DA_Matrix.txt: weed diversity [total species richness (richness) and total Piélou’s evenness (evenness)] and abundance [mean total cover before (cover) and after (logit.cover) logit-transformation] matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields.<br>DA_Matrix_wo_OP5.txt: weed diversity [total species richness (richness) and total Piélou’s evenness (evenness)] and abundance [mean total cover before (cover) and after (logit.cover) logit-transformation] matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields after removing rare species from the dataset.<br>CT_matrix.txt: species trait values matrix for each continuous trait considered [seed number per plant (SNPP), seed dry mass (SDM), plant vegetative height (PHV) and seed germination rates (SGR)].<br>CT_matrix_wo_OP5.txt: species trait values matrix for each continuous trait considered [seed number per plant (SNPP), seed dry mass (SDM), plant vegetative height (PHV) and seed germination rates (SGR)] after removing rare species from the dataset.<br>T_matrix.txt: species trait values matrix for each trait considered [seed number per plant (SNPP), type of reproduction (ToR), seed dry mass (SDM), plant vegetative height (PHV) and seed germination rates (SGR)] following a MICE procedure to estimate missing continuous trait values.<br>T_matrix_wo_OP5.txt: species trait values matrix for each trait considered [seed number per plant (SNPP), type of reproduction (ToR), seed dry mass (SDM), plant vegetative height (PHV) and seed germination rates (SGR)] following a MICE procedure to estimate missing continuous trait values and after removing rare species from the dataset.<br>FC_Matrix.txt: functional composition [Community weighed mean (CWM) trait value] matrix for each trait considered [seed number per plant (SNPP), type of reproduction (ToR), seed dry mass (SDM), plant vegetative height (PHV) and seed germination rate (SGR)] in the 27 winter cereal fields.<br>FC_Matrix_wo_OP5.txt: functional composition [Community weighed mean (CWM) trait value] matrix for each trait considered [seed number per plant (SNPP), type of reproduction (ToR), seed dry mass (SDM), plant vegetative height (PHV) and seed germination rate (SGR)] in the 27 winter cereal fields after removing rare species from the dataset.<br>Data_OLS.csv: data* to perform multiple ordinary least square (OLS) regression models using model-averaging methodology. *Merging of Landscape_matrix.txt, FC_Matrix.txt and DA_Matrix.txt.<br>Data_OLS_wo_OP5.csv: data* to perform multiple ordinary least square (OLS) regression models using model-averaging methodology after removing rare species from the dataset. *Merging of Landscape_matrix.txt, FC_Matrix_wo_OP5.txt and DA_Matrix_wo_OP5.txt.<br>Script_DA.R: script to obtain weed diversity and abundance matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields (DA_Matrix.txt).<br>Script_DA_wo_OP5.R: script to obtain weed diversity and abundance matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields after removing rare species from the dataset (DA_Matrix_wo_OP5.txt).<br>Script_CT.R: script to obtain species trait values matrix for each continuous trait considered [seed number per plant (SNPP), seed dry mass (SDM), plant vegetative height (PHV) and seed germination rate (SGR)] (CT_matrix.txt). Please, note that the data obtained following our request cannot be made publicly available.<br>Script_CT_wo_OP5.R: script to obtain species trait values matrix for each continuous trait considered [seed number per plant (SNPP), seed dry mass (SDM), plant vegetative height (PHV) and seed germination rate (SGR)] after removing rare species from the dataset (CT_matrix_wo_OP5.txt). Please, note that the data obtained following our request cannot be made publicly available.<br>Script_FC.R: script to obtain functional composition [Community weighed mean (CWM) trait value] matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields (FC_Matrix.txt).<br>Script_FC_wo_OP5.R: script to obtain functional composition [Community weighed mean (CWM) trait value] matrix for the 27 winter cereal fields after removing rare species from the dataset (FC_Matrix_wo_OP5.txt).<br>Script_OLS.R: script to perform OLS regression models using model-averaging methodology.<br>Script_OLS_wo_OP5.R: script to perform OLS regression models using model-averaging methodology fields after removing rare species from the dataset.