Mixed-species forests are promoted as a forest management strategy for climate change adaptation, but whether they are more resistant to drought than monospecific forests remains contested. Particularly, the trait-based mechanisms driving the role...

Leaf toughness assessed on individual trees of species growing on the Experimental Sites of BEF China. 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 sma...

This is the structural data on the canopies of the tree species quartets (TSQs) that were scanned via personal laser scanning (PLS) in the field campaigns of the summer of 2023 (Site A) and 2024 (Site B). The data includes different variables desc...

The aim of this study was to analyse the relation of horizontal and vertical canopy structure to tree functional diversity of a highly diverse subtropical broad-leaved slope forest, stratified for different successional stages. This is of particul...

This data set contains all ant workers that have been collected in the 27 CSPs in the Gutianshan National Nature Reserve. Ants have been collected with a range of complementary methods (baiting at breast height / baiting on the ground / beating lo...

The species richness for trees was calculated for each TSQ (for TSQ-level tree diversity), as well as the TSQ tree density (number of trees present)