Sapling leaf and root chemistry from 6.6 km Jianfengling transect

Leaf and root tissue chemsitry for 300 saplings of 50 species (14 faimiles) of tropical trees from Jianfengling, Hainan Island, China. Data were collected during the summer (May to July) of 2017. Laboratory analyses of plant tissue elemental composition of 15 elements (carbon, nitrogen, boron, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, zinc and molybdenum) completed at Florida International and Lousiana State Universities. Soil analyses completed by the Guangzhou Xinhua Agricultural Technical Development Limited Company in Guangzhou, China. See the Metadata_Jianfengling_CHINAROOTS_TissueNutrients.txt for complete metadata.<br>see www.experiment.com/chinaroots (doi: 10.18258/9485) for a greater description of this research project. Address correspondence regarding these data to J. Aaron Hogan (jamesaaronhogan at gmail dot com).<br><br>This dataset is related to our article published in Plant &amp; Soil:<br>Hogan, J.A., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., Tang, W., et al. Evidence of elemental homeostasis in fine root and leaf tissues of saplings across a fertility gradient in tropical montane forest in Hainan, China. <i>Plant Soil</i> 460, 625–646 (2021).