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.

This dataset accompanies the paper by Schuldt et al. "Diversity relations across trophic levels change with spatial scale in a biodiverse forest"

The present study was performed in 16 plots spanning a forest age gradient from 20 to 120 years. We investigated the effects of the successional stage on soil respiration (Rs), autotrophic respiration (Ra) and heterotrophic respiration (Rh) in an ...

Estimated data of individual root biomass of July 2010 in Pilot experiment (SP1) by the allometric equations. --- Including estimated root biomass data of block 1, 2 & 3, and the harvest data of block 4.

Experiment design of NILEx, an introduction by Katrin Seidelmann

One map for each of the study sites, together with a legend file.