Tree growth rate-mediated trade-off between drought resistance and recovery in the Northern Hemisphere

The frequency and severity of drought events have increased with climate warming. This poses a significant threat to tree growth and survival worldwide. However, the underlying mechanism of tree growth responses to drought across diverse geographic regions and species remains inconclusive. Here, we used 2808 tree ring width chronologies of 32 species from 1951 to 2020 to examine the relationships between growth rates and resistance and recovery of trees in response to drought in the Northern Hemisphere. We found that trees with fast growth rates exhibited lower drought resistance but higher drought recovery compared to those with slow growth rates, which was further corroborated by the trade-off between resistance and recovery in response to variations in leaf photosynthetic traits. The difference in growth rates also well explained the large variability in the drought resistance and recovery for different geographic regions as well as for species from different clades and successional ..., , , # **Data from: Tree growth rate-mediated trade-off between drought resistance and recovery in the Northern Hemisphere**

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.83bk3jb29](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.83bk3jb29)

## Description of the data and file structure

R_code.zip contains all the R codes for the analyses. Martínez-Sancho_et_al._tree_ring_data.zip contains raw tree ring data.

### Files and variables

#### File: R\_code.zip

**Description:** R_code.zip contains commented R codes for all analyses in the paper. The total script is divided into 7 separate files with titles describing the overall theme of each script file.

#### File: Martínez-Sancho\_et\_al.\_tree\_ring\_data.zip

**Description:** Martínez-Sancho_et_al._tree_ring_data.zip contains tree ring data from Martínez-Sancho et al. (doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0340-y).

## Code/software

R_code.zip are all R codes.

## Access information

Other publicly accessible locations of data used in this study:

*  The tree ring data can be obtaine...