Leaf decomposition plays an important role in ecosystem biogeochemistry. Nutrients are released from decomposing litter by leaching of soluble substances and the break-down by animals, microbes and fungi, and will thus become again available for u...

Trophobiosis are common tri-trophic trophic interaction between plants, sap-sucking insects and ants. While sap-sucking insects directly exploit plants in a cryptic form of herbivory, the ants establish a mutualistic relationship with the sap-suck...

Resident phytometers are trees from within the general planting scheme but of which the seed family is known. In summer 2012 we measured several growth parameters and estimated herbivory on 12 phytometer species: Alniphyllum fortunei, Castanopsis ...

Estimated data of individual biomass of July 2010 in Pilot experiment (SP7, Species Pool 1 & 3) by the allomerty equations. --- Including estimated tree biomass data of block 1, 2 & 3, and the harvest data of block 4.

Soil sampling was carried out on a subset of 100 plots of two overlapping extinction scenarios on Site A (Extinction scenario A and B). The samples were collected from young forest communities composed of 1 - 24 species (see general plot informati...

Preliminary data from the common garden experiment in Gutianshan. Approximately 10,000 cuttings from 10 common species were collected from CSPs and planted in a common garden experiment within Gutianshan. Collection and planting took place in Augu...