Cuesta_etal_Gloria_Baseline-data_12.11.2016 Vegetation baseline data from 13 GLORIA-Andes long-term monitoring sites. The file contains: (1) a matrix of the average cover of each vascular plant species, averaged over the sixteen 1x1 m quadrats in each of the 50 summits, (2) environmental matrix that contains fine and broad-scale habitat variables for each summit, (3) A species richness matrix that contains the total number of species found in the sixteen quadrats established in each summit, and (4) a species richness matrix at the site scale Link to depository: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.6qf10