Trait measurements of individuals of the clonal herb Taraxacum officinale collected in the Main Experiment year 2019

Plant species respond to varying plant species diversity and associated changes in their abiotic and biotic environment with changes in their phenotype. However, it is not clear to what degree this phenotypic differentiation is due to genotype diversity within populations or phenotypic plasticity of plant individuals. We studied individuals of 16 populations of the clonal herb Taraxacum officinale grown in plant communities of different species richness in a 17-year-old grassland biodiversity experiment (Jena Experiment). We collected 12 individuals in each population and we measured their phenotypic traits.This work is based on data elaborated by the subproject 10 "Plant trait variation and evolution in the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning context" of the Jena Experiment, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (For 5000).