R codes from: Breakdown of the growth–mortality trade-off along a soil phosphorus gradient in diverse neotropical forest

An ecological paradigm predicts that plant species adapted to low resource
availability grow slower and live longer than those adapted to high
resource availability when growing together. We tested this by using
hierarchical Bayesian analysis to quantify variations in growth and
mortality of ~ 40,000 individual trees from > 400 species in
response to limiting resources in the tropical forests of Panama. In
contrast to theoretical expectations of the growth–mortality paradigm, we
find that tropical tree species restricted to low-phosphorus soils
simultaneously achieve faster growth rates and lower mortality rates than
species restricted to high-phosphorus soils. This result demonstrates that
adaptation to phosphorus limitation in diverse plant communities modifies
the growth–mortality trade-off, with important implications for
understanding long-term ecosystem dynamics.