Tree traits and canopy closure data from an experiment with 34 planted species native to Sabah, Borneo

Malin Gustafsson; Lena Gustafsson; David Alloysius; Jan Falck; Sauwai Yap; Anders Karlsson; Ulrik Ilstedt

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2015.12.048

Tree traits and canopy closure data from an experiment with 34 planted species native to Sabah, Borneo

Data Brief. 2016 Jan 6:6:466-70. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2015.12.048. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Authors

Malin Gustafsson¹, Lena Gustafsson², David Alloysius³, Jan Falck¹, Sauwai Yap³, Anders Karlsson¹, Ulrik Ilstedt¹

Affiliations

¹ Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, 901 83 Umeå, Sweden.
² Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, Department of Ecology, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.
³ Conservation & Environmental Management Division, Yayasan Sabah Group, P.O. Box 11623, 88817 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

Abstract

The data presented in this paper is supporting the research article "Life history traits predict the response to increased light among 33 tropical rainforest tree species" [3]. We show basic growth and survival data collected over the 6 years duration of the experiment, as well as data from traits inventories covering 12 tree traits collected prior to and after a canopy reduction treatment in 2013. Further, we also include canopy closure and forest light environment data from measurements with hemispherical photographs before and after the treatment.