1. Afforestations are globally increasing to produce timber and pulp wood, and to enhance carbon sequestration aiming at the mitigation of CO2 emissions. Large areas have been and will be afforested, particularly in China, in order to compensate f...

This data gives cover values of individual herb species in each of the 1 mu subplots of the experimental site A of the BEF-China experiment.

This data documents the shrub growth parameters in 2011 for site B, belonging to the annual inventory taking place for both site A and site B. Individual-shrub growth is a function of stand attributes, local neighbors, plant size, plant damage, ge...

Aggregated data from the dataset "Xylem traits of tree species in the CSPs": These data aggregate the several ordinal variables. Tree xylem traits describing growth rings, wood porosity, wood vessels, perforation plates, vessel ray pitting, helica...

For the “decomposcape” approach, a total of 4131 litter bags were filled with single-species litter of Osmanthus fragrans, Pinus massoniana and Schima superba, respectively. These bags have been fixed on the soil surface across both field sites. T...

Data on sampled tree and shrub saplings from the beating tray collections. Beating tray approach enables to test to what extent woody plant diversity affects the abundance, species composition and diversity of herbivores (which might profit from b...