Andrade, RuiGabriel, RosalinaBorges, P.A.V.Pires Bento da Silva Elias, Rui MiguelGuerrero-Ramírez, Nathaly2026-03-262026-03-262026-03-25Andrade, R., Gabriel, R., Borges, P. A. V. & Elias, R. B. (2026). MOVECLIM–AZORES: plot based vascular plant cover along elevational gradients (2013). Biodiversity Data Journal, 14, e178119.1314-2836http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/8919ABSTRACT: In the scope of the MOVECLIM project, in 2013, we surveyed vascular plants and their ground cover in native or better-preserved vegetation patches, following an elevational transect, on four Azorean islands (São Miguel, Terceira, Pico and Flores). Using a standardised, plot-based protocol, permanent 10 m × 10 m plots were established at approximately 200 m elevation steps, each plot subdivided into four 5 m × 5 m subplots. All vascular taxa were recorded per subplot and cover was assigned using the Braun-Blanquet Ordinal Transform Value (OTV), a scale based on a geometric series, that assigns a numeric value (1–9) to each Braun–Blanquet category.engAzoresbiodiversity monitoringislandsvascular plantsendemisminvasive speciesoccurrencesfield surveylong-term monitoringWallacean shortfalldata paper10.3897/BDJ.14.e1781191314-2828