Demographic response to light environment of all species in the Barro Colorado plot: recruitment, growth, and mortality

We measured growth, death, and recruitment of 250,000 individual trees of 300 species in the Barro Colorado 50-ha plot in Panama. To understand how light limits demography, we also carried out a detailed map of the light environment across the 50 hectares, providing an estimate of the light at the top of every tree in the plot (Rüger et al. 2009, 2011ab, 2012, 2018, 2020). These tables combine results from the three main studies on the demographic responses of tree species to light, covering recruitment, growth, and mortality. Each study was based on rigorous statistical estimates of demographic rate parameters as a function of available light across most species in the forest. The model parameters provided here allow demographic rates of every species to be estimated under any light condition, and at any diameter, for example, growth rate of 5-cm trees in 3% light, or death rate of 2-cm trees in 10% light. Most useful is a single table that provides estimated responses in a consistent ...