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).