This research is designed to collect data on diversity in subtropical forest ecosystems and relate it to ecosystem services such as primary productivity, carbon storage, prevention of soil erosion, and invasion resistance to exotic plants. This da...

Soil chemical laboratory analyses of all plots on Site B. Contents of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur as well as pH-values (in H2O and KCl) of depth increments per plot.

Updated 2011-11-14: Different diversity measures, including richness, Shannon, Simpson, Eveness, rarefaction and phylogenetic diversity based on the tree and shrub species in the CSPs. Comparative Study Plots (CSP) of the Biodiversity - Ecosystem...

Soil profile description according to "!!!Bodenkundliche Kartieranleitung". This dataset contains all information with several entries (up to 8) per category, thus describing the whole soil profile. Two separate sheets contain data that describes ...

Comparative Study Plots of the BEF-China experiment were selected according to a gradient of successional age and a crossed gradient of tree diversity. This file describes measures of stem diameter distribution from the CSPs, as well as basal area...

Sand-filled splash cups were used to study the erosivity of rainfall and throughfall in the humid subtropics of southeast China in spring and summer 2010. Our results showed that the splash cup measurements yielded precise and reproducible results...