Data from: Land uplift creates important meadow habitat and a potential original niche for grassland species AuffretAlistair G A. O. CousinsSara 2018 This is the dataset for the article "Land uplift creates important meadow habitat and a potential original niche for grassland species" by Auffret & Cousins.<br><br>The data presented include:<br>1. A land uplift model showing the century of land emergence since 2000BC for all land, and two definitions of potential meadow grassland in the regions of Uppland and Södertörn in central Sweden.<br><br>2. The observations of plant species on 20 coastal meadow grasslands in central Sweden in 2012. <br><br>3. Species richness and the number of red-listed plant species in coastal areas of the province of Södermanland from the regional plant atlas, along with selected landscape variables.<br><br>More detailed information is available in the readme file, as well as the original publication.<br><br>Please feel free to get in touch.