Soil physical analyses of all 27 comparative study plots. Mass-% of 8 grain size classes of fine earth < 2 mm of six depth increments per CSP. Total depth is 50 cm. Grain sizes discriminate between sand, silt, and clay.

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

The soil microbial activity data from intensive sampling in site A in 2011. Activities of four hydrolytic enzymes involved in breakdown of cellulose (β-glucosidase), xylan(ß-xylosidase), chitin (N-acetyl-glucosaminidase) and polyphosphate (acid ph...

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...