Published October 30, 2023 | Version v1
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Summary data for "Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures: a meta-analysis"

Creators

  • 1. Department of Biology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • 2. The Nature Conservancy (United States), United States; Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SI), United States
  • 3. Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
  • 4. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany; Institute of Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Leipzig University, Germany
  • 5. Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
  • 6. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama), Panama
  • 7. INRAE Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux, France
  • 8. Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • 9. Institut des sciences de la forêt tempérée, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada; Centre for Forest Research, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laval University, Canada
  • 10. Centre for Forest Research, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laval University, Canada
  • 11. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and Forestry, Canada
  • 12. McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
  • 13. Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA; Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2753, Australia; Institute for Global Change Biology, and School for the Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States

Description

This is the dataset used in "Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures: a meta-analysis" published in Frontiers in Forests & Global Change. 

The dataset contains carbon or biomass data for mixed and monoculture planted forests from 21 sites with a global coverage. We provide summary data necessary to conduct a meta-analysis: mean, standard deviation, and sample size, for each unique mixed and monoculture treatment at each study site. We indicate whether the values provided are aboveground carbon or biomass.

For each treatment we also provide the species richness, age and species. We provide the longitude, latitude and country for each study site.

Our study also assessed the effect of study design (experiment vs existing plantation), species origin (native vs non-native/mixed), and presence of nitrogen fixer in the mixture (N fixer present vs absent), we record the value of each of these factors. Finally, we categorised a subset of monocultures as commercial species monocultures based on the species use in that location. 

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