Questions: One tenet of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research is the dependence of ecosystem functions on species-specific differences in traits. Community assembly theory predicts niche differentiation among the constituent species, for...

This picture shows the general set-up of a CSP. The dataset is ment to give an overview on the general design of a CSP to facilitate the understanding of plot and subplot allocation of positions referred in other datasets available on the CSPs on ...

Third proposal of the BEF China project, details on the new experimental sites and the new joint experiments.

SP01 Pilot experiment monthly basal area and height growth. Species richness (1,2,4) can affect plant growth. We meassured monthly growth, to asses how these differences can affect growth in two different light conditions. We are particularly inte...

Here we collect some R scripts for data management tasks.

This data gives cover values of herbs in each of the 1 mu subplots of the experimental site B of the BEF-China experiment.