Leaf, wood and root traits and demographic rates of temperate tree species

The interspecific tradeoff between tree growth potential in resource-rich environments and survival in resource-poor ones is a central element of species’ distributions and forest diversity. Aboveground traits are commonly used to understand demographic strategies of tree species, but research on root trait relationships with tree growth, and especially survival is largely lacking. We compiled a dataset with growth and survival data from more than 370,000 trees of 15 temperate species and added species-level data on leaf, wood and stem traits obtained from existing datasets.
As such, this entry consists of three datasets that compiled publicly available data. When using these data, please cite the original source (i.e., FIA, TRY, FRED databases as explained in the Methods of the main article).
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Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.bnzs7h4qv](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bnzs7h4qv)

## Description of the data and file structure

Trait and demographic (size, survival) data were collected for 15 temperate tree species, from published, online data sources accessed on May 2015 (demographic data) and January 2021 (trait data).

* FIA_dat.csv. This file contains a geographical (northeastern United states) and species subset (15 temperate tree species) of the original FIA dataset (see Methods), in which only relevant columns were retained with information on tree species, plot locations, state, tree identity code, census year, DBH and survival records. Each row (n = 736,087) represents a single census *measurement* of DBH and survival status (i.e., dead or alive) of a given tree, from a given species, in a given FIA plot, censused approximately every five years between 2000 and 2014 during which each tree was sample...,