Tree damage and mortality measurements across seven ForestGEO plots in the tropics between Oct 2016 and Mar 2023

This dataset contains annual records (raw data) on tree survival and structural completeness of 36,524 trees (2,467 species) collected across 29 censuses in seven tropical forests distributed across the Neotropics (Amacayacu, Colombia; Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panamá; Yasuní, Ecuador) and Asia (Fushan, Taiwan; Huai Kha Khaeng (HKK), Thailand; Khao Chong (KC), Thailand; Pasoh, Malaysia). This dataset was used to compare aboveground biomass loss via damage to living trees relative to total AGB loss (mortality + damage). Data is contained within a single CSV file.Variable definitions: site: name of the ForestGEO plot; stemID.ams: Unique ID for the stem in the annual mortality surveys (ams); treeID.ams: Unique ID for the tree in the ams; date.full.census: date of the previous full census of the plot, format: YYYY-MM-DD; dbh.full.census: diameter at the breast height (dbh in mm) measured during the previous full census of the plot; home: height of measurement of dbh (in m); meanWD: species-level wood density (g cm-3); date.ams: date of the ams, format: YYYY-MM-DD; status: survival status of the tree (A: alive; D: dead; NF: not found; "?": unknown); H_considering_damage: living length of the main axis in meters; provides an estimate of the amount of remaining living tissues along the main axis of the stem (e.g., the height of breakage or the height discounting wood decay); b: the remaining proportion of branch volume within the living length (b∈[0,1]). ; weights.ind: frequency of the [size class x species] bins within the forest plot relative to their frequency in the sample. It is necessary to extrapolate estimates to the whole plot. This dataset was originally published on the NGEE Tropics Archive and is being mirrored on ESS-DIVE for long-term archival Please see the NGT0201_acknowledgements.txt file for a full listing of dataset acknowledgements.