Complementary resource use has often been claimed to explain positive effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functioning, but the underlying mechanisms of complementarity have rarely been directly quantified in forest systems. The aim of this stud...

One to two page introduction to projects of students of the Chinese Subprojects.

The climate station for the Main Experiment Site A is situated at Plot M20 (29°07'27'' N, 117°54'30'' E) at 193 m asl.

Planned and current tree species on positions in Plots of Site B. Includes information on the topography inferred from the 1m interpolated GIS.

While coexistence in plant communities is frequently explained by effects of resource niche partitioning, the Janzen-Connell (J-C) hypothesis is an alternative approach that has been assumed as a major ecological mechanism explaining high species ...

Leaf toughness assessed on individual trees of species growing in the CSPs in Gutianshan Nature Reserve. For each tree seven leaves were sampled in most cases. Every single value for every leaf is given. Exceptions were made in species with very s...