Data of "Unraveling community assembly in temperate desert ecosystems: insights from multi-seasonal surveys along the expressway"

8 of the 74 species are rare and endangered (i.e., Potaninia mongolica, Gymnocarpos przewalskii, Populus euphratica, Ammopiptanthus mongolicus, Haloxylon ammodendron, Amygdalus mongolica, Reaumuria songarica and Reaumuria trigyna) is not included,if you need to obtain rare and endangered plants data, which is owned by department of grassland science, Beijing Forestry University, please contact dongshikui@bjfu.edu.cn.