Leaf toughness assessed on individual trees of species growing on the Experimental Sites of BEF China. For each tree seven leaves were sampled in most cases. Every single value for every leaf is given. Exceptions were made in species with very sma...

We sampled trophobioses from 21 May to 20 August 2011 on site A. We selected in total 146 plots from tree diversity level 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16. Because there are only two plots with tree diversity 24, we did not study the highest available tree dive...

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Includes the metadata and inventory measurement data for all TSQs of Site A and B recorded in separate campaigns of TreeDì cohort two and three in 2023 and 2024 respectively. The data includes the positions, species and conditions of shrub and tre...

Phylogenetic beta diversity between successional stages of the comparative study sites

We studied eight tree species growing in a long gradient of local neighbourhood tree species richness (0 - 7 heterospecific neighbours). We assessed biodiversity effects on water availability by using a target tree’s twig wood carbon isotope compo...