Here we present the result from a two-year field experiment in which we transplanted seedlings of 14 woody species representing three contrasting functional types(broad-leaved evergreen, deciduous and coniferous species) along a light gradient int...

The BEFmod experiment is subject to a manipulation of resource supply and biotic impacts to examine whether Biodiversity-Ecosystem-Functioning (BEF) relationships may change under different environmental influences. BEFmod was conducted on subplot...

The soil microbial biomass data from tracer NILEx 2012, data is only analyzed through samples taken from the 3rd time point (August, 2012).

Leaf litter decomposition is closely linked to nutrient cycling and driven by environmental conditions, species-specific leaf chemistry, and here in particular by polyphenols composition. However, not much attention has been paid on the decomposit...

This data documents the tree growth parameters in 2009 for site A, belonging to the annual inventory taking place for both site A and site B. Individual-tree growth is a function of stand attributes, local neighbors, plant size, plant damage, geno...

Importing datasets directly from your R workspace. Our package is now on CRAN and can be downloaded via install.packages() or via your preferred R GUI. The code can be found on https://github.com/befdata/rbefdata