Dataset on asynchrony and stability of trees and herbivores across organizational levels in BEF-China

The data collected from a large-scale forest biodiversity experiment to investigate the scaling of temporal stability from populations, to communities, and meta-communities in a plant-herbivore system, allowing us to disentangle the relative role of top-down and bottom-up regulation. Specifically, we used a resampling approach15 where single meta-communities were assembled from five randomly selected plots k, each representing a single community. In total, we considered 1,000 resampled meta-communities (500 for each study site). We then calculated stability, asynchrony, and diversity for herbivores and trees based on herbivore abundances and tree growth rates, respectively.