Growth and biomass allocation of West African savanna and forest tree seedlings in response to fire and shading. A dataset of a field experiment conducted at Lamto, Côte d'Ivoire, 2001-2002.

This dataset contains all the measurements on which the Gignoux et al. (2016) associated artilce is based. It describes the results of a 15-months growth experiment testing the response of 2 species of savanna tree seedlings and 2 species of forest tree species, all growing in the Lamto reserve, Côte d'Ivoire (6°13′​N, 5°02′​W), to fire and shading treatments. 432 seedlings of Ceiba pentandra, Cynometra megalophylla (rainforest species), Bridelia ferruginea and Piliostigma thonningii (humid savanna species) were grown during 15 months under 2 fire (burned, unburned) and shading (full light, 40% full light) experimental treatments. All seedlings were measured (1) every 3 months for height, number of leaves, stem diameter; (2) once for photosynthetic assimilation (Amax) under two different light levels matching the levels of the shading treatment; (3) three times for root, stem, leaf biomass, an leaf surface (destructive sampling of 36 sedlings per date). This work was not funded by any important programme.