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).