Dataset Accompanying the Study by Boeschoten et al. 'Water limits radial tree growth more than light in an everwet subtropical forest'

This Zenodo repository contains the processed dataset used in the research paper titled "Water limits radial tree growth more than light in an everwet subtropical forest" Global Change biology (2026) (https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.71021). Contrary to the prevailing light-limitation hypothesis, in this study we find that soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand were the primary determinants of both whether and how much growth occurred on any given day, even under these perennially wet conditions. Light availability and photoperiod enhanced growth magnitude when water was not limiting, but their effects were consistently smaller.