Data for "Litter depth mediates the effect of extreme precipitation on emergence timing of understory plants"

This data package contains data for the Bautista & Damschen paper in Ecosphere with the title "Litter depth mediates the effect of extreme precipitation on emergence timing of understory plants." Seeds of seven different plant species were planted in 90 trays, with 20 seeds of each species in each tray (N=12,600 seeds total). Each tray had a fungicide treatment, a precipitation treatment, and a litter depth treatment. Seeds germinated and emerged and were tracked from the date of emergence until the date of death (or the end of the experiment, whichever was earlier). These data were used to calculate seedling lifespan, the days to emergence, and whether the seedling died during the course of the experiment. These data were used to examine the effects of precipitation, microsite availability, and soil fungi on (1) seedling emergence and (2) the timing of seedling emergence and survival.