Replication data for: Soil inoculation steers restoration of terrestrial ecosystems

The sod addition treatment was not performed outside the top soil excavations (perhaps for financial reasons?) . Hence in total there were 4 experimental areas, with 7 treatments each, creating 28 sampling locations. Within each sampling location a transect of 5 plots was laid out, with the centre plot in the middle of the sampling location.

The orientation of the transect was decided randomly as far a the size of the treatment in each sampling location permitted (see tab 'transect orientation' in the primary data files). Each plot was 1x1m and the spacing between plot edges was 5 m (hence each transect from the far edges of plot 1 & 5 spans 25 m). All data in the primary data files were sampled in this way.