Data belonging to manuscript Hordijk et al 2025 Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world's forests

This dataset belongs to the manuscript titled “Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests” by Hordijk et al., 2025. DOI 10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7 This dataset consists of 14 columns: Height, CrownDiameter, BarkThickness, WoodDensity, SLA, LeafN, LeafNP, StemConduitDiameter, RootDepth, SeedMass, pca1, pca2, PercInd_gymnosperm, Biome. The data in the columns express the difference in standardized trait values between dominant and rare tree species of respectively height, crown diameter, bark thickness, wood density, specific leaf area (SLA), leaf nitrogen content, leaf nitrogen phosporus ratio, stem conduit diameter, rooting depth, seed mass, first PC axis, second PC axis and percentage of gymnosperms. The column Biome indicates in which biome the plot is located, where 1 is the Tropical moist forest biome, 2 the Tropical dry forest biome, 3 the Tropical conifer forest biome, 4 the Temperate forest biome, 5 the Temperate conifer forest biome and 6 the Boreal forest biome. Please see for details the above-mentioned manuscript.