Plant cover data sets for implementing beta distribution based models

The data were collected every year from 2011 until 2017 at the Clarno unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The areal plots were placed following a random selection of locations based on the GRTS algorithm. There was a fire documented in 2011 and interest is in assessing whether there is evidence of cheatgrass distribution or abundance increasing in the monument post-fire.