Community-weighted mean traits in old-growth and selectively logged forest

<strong>Description: </strong> Community-weighted mean traits from tree species that make up more than 80% basal area in plots in selectively logged forest at SAFE and in old-growth forest in Danum Valley and Maliau Basin. Sampled during the BALI project traits campaign <strong>Project: </strong>This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: <strong>Biodiversity and land-use impacts on tropical ecosystem function (BALI): Quantifying functional trait distributions across the disturbance gradient</strong> <strong>Funding: </strong>These data were collected as part of research funded by: NERC (Standard grant, NE/K016253/1) This dataset is released under the CC-BY 4.0 licence, requiring that you cite the dataset in any outputs, but has the additional condition that you acknowledge the contribution of these funders in any outputs. <strong>Permits: </strong>These data were collected under permit from the following authorities: Sabah Biodiversity Centre (Research licence JKM/MBS.1000-2.2(385)) <strong>XML metadata: </strong>GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here <strong>Files: </strong>This dataset consists of 3 files: Both_CWM_traits.xlsx, CSP_protocol_Chlorophyll_and_Carotenoids.pdf, CSP_protocol_Phenols_Tannins_Analysis.pdf <strong>Both_CWM_traits.xlsx</strong> This file contains dataset metadata and 1 data tables: <strong>CMW_traits</strong> (described in worksheet CMW_traits) Description: Community-weighted mean traits of tree in plots in SAFE , Danum Valley and Maliau Basin sampled during the BALI project traits campaign Number of fields: 36 Number of data rows: 8 Fields: <strong>location</strong>: Location (Field type: Categorical) <strong>forest_type</strong>: Forest type (Field type: Categorical) <strong>forestplots_name</strong>: Plot name coherent with forestplots database (Field type: ID) <strong>plot_name_trait_campaign</strong>: Plot name used during the BALI trait campaign (Field type: ID) <strong>CWM_total_K_mg.g_log</strong>: CWM foliar potassium concentration in mg per g dry weight, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_total_Ca_mg.g_log</strong>: CWM foliar calcium concentration in mg per g dry weight, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_total_Mg_mg.g_log</strong>: CWM foliar magnesium concentration in mg per g dry weight, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_total_P_mg.g_log</strong>: CWM foliar phosporus concentration in mg per g dry weight, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_N_perc</strong>: CWM foliar nitrogen concentration (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_15N_per_mil</strong>: CWM foliar 15N isotope concentration (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_C_perc</strong>: CWM foliar carbon concentration (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_13C_per_mil</strong>: CWM foliar 13C isotope concentration, expressed relative to Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite (VPDB) as δ13C in units of per mil [‰] (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_DR</strong>: CWM dark respiration measured on leaf attached to a branch that is cut under water and remains in water (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_Asat</strong>: CWM light-saturated net photosynthesis measured on leaf attached to a branch that is cut under water and remains in water. (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_Amax</strong>: CWM maximum photosynthetic capacity measured on leaf attached to a branch that is cut under water and remains in water. (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_leaf_thickness_mm_log</strong>: CWM thickness of leaf, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_dry_weight_mg_log</strong>: CWM leaf oven-dried weight, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_LA_mm2_log</strong>: CWM leaf area (LA) calculated from fresh leaves collected from branches, scanned immediately, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_SLA_mm2_mg</strong>: CWM specific leaf area (SLA) determined as the one-sided area of a fresh leaf, divided by its oven-dry mass. (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_LDMC_mg.g</strong>: CWM leaf dry-matter content (LDMC) is the oven-dry mass (mg) of a leaf, divided by its water-saturated fresh mass (g) mg g–1 (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_chla_mg.g</strong>: CWM foliar chlorophyll a content (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_chlb_mg.g</strong>: CWM foliar chlorophyll b content (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_carot_mg.g</strong>: CWM foliar carotenoids content (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_Fp_N_mm_log</strong>: CWM force to punch leaf, dividing the observed force (N) required to puncture the leaf lamina by the circumference of the instrument's rod, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_specific_Fp_log</strong>: CWM specific force to punch (Fp divided by lamina thickness), log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_WD_B</strong>: CWM branch wood density from branch segment with bark (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_hemicellulose_perc</strong>: CWM foliar hemicellulose concentration (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_cellulose_perc</strong>: CWM foliar cellulose concentration (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_lignin_recalcitrants_perc</strong>: CWM foliar lignin and recalcitrants concentration (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_total_tannin_mg.g</strong>: CWM foliar tannin concentration (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_total_phenol_mg.g</strong>: CWM total foliar phenol concentration (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_chla_mg.mm2</strong>: CWM foliar chlorophyll a content expressed on leaf area basis (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_chlb_mg.mm2</strong>: CWM foliar chlorophyll b content expressed on leaf area basis (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_carot_mg.mm2</strong>: CWM foliar carotenoids content expressed on leaf area basis (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_N_mg.mm2</strong>: CWM foliar nitrogen concentration expressed on leaf area basis (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CWM_total_P_mg.mm2.l</strong>: CWM foliar phosporus concentration expressed on leaf area basis, log transformed data (Field type: Numeric) <strong>CSP_protocol_Chlorophyll_and_Carotenoids.pdf</strong> Description: Methodology of chlorophyll and carotenoids analysis, Carnegie Spectranomics protocol: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B58dyv8L3FpMdGw0QWtiZElHQzQ/view <strong>CSP_protocol_Phenols_Tannins_Analysis.pdf</strong> Description: Methodology of phenols and tannins analysis, Carnegie Spectranomics protocol: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B58dyv8L3FpMcTBHblQwRHdyRE0/view <strong>Date range: </strong>2014-05-01 to 2018-09-01 <strong>Latitudinal extent: </strong>4.5000 to 5.0700 <strong>Longitudinal extent: </strong>116.7500 to 117.8200