For the “decomposcape” approach, a total of 4131 litter bags were filled with single-species litter of Osmanthus fragrans, Pinus massoniana and Schima superba, respectively. These bags have been fixed on the soil surface across both field sites. T...

Subplot naming conventions refer not only to the CSP and the geographic direction (provided by M. Baruffol) but also by the subplot location within the slope (X. Chi).

Litter cover plays a major role in soil erosion processes. It is known that litter cover reduces erosivity of raindrops, decreases sediment discharge and lowers runoff volume compared to bare ground. However, in the context of biodiversity, the co...

These data were complied related to the question: Is there evidence for lateral N-transport from leaf litter to dead wood? Wood slices of different species (Pinus massonina, Schima superba, Quercus serrata) placed at different divers 15N labeled l...

The soil microbialbiomass CN data from tracer NILEx 2012, data include all the tracer nilex time points. Soil microbial bimass carbon and nitrogen content were determined by the chloroform fumigation extraction method. Two sets of soil samples (ap...

Traits are derived from gridding the range of a given species and then summarizing the values in each single grid cell. Climatic niche traits in this dataset include minimum and maximum temperatures in winter as well as precipition in winter.