This dataset accompagnies the paper by Schuldt et al. "Belowground top-down and aboveground bottom-up effects structure multitrophic community relationships in a biodiverse forest"

Presentation at the GfÖ conference (Ecological society of Germany, Austria, Switzerland) in Gießen, Germany, 2010.

Extreme climatic events threaten forests and their climate mitigation potential globally. Understanding the drivers promoting ecosystem stability is therefore considered crucial for mitigating adverse climate change effects on forests. Here, we us...

This dataset contains the phylogenetic tree for the tree species in the Main experiment. It is a subset of the extensive phylogenetic tree for the Flora in the Gutianshan National Nature Reserve available from the dataset 240 (http://china.befdata...

Soil chemical laboratory analyses of all 27 comparative study plots. Anaylsis done with the Hedley fractionation method (Modification by Tiessen & Moir, 1993) for the top three (0-5, 5-10, 10-20cm) of the six depth increments of each CSP

Here we present data on 26 morphological and chemical leaf traits of tree species in the Comparative Study Plots (CSPs) of the BEF-China Project. Leaves were sampled accoring to the procedures described in Cornelissen et al (2003), with only fully...