title: Allometry and growth of eight tree taxa in United Kingdom woodlands.
abstract: As part of a project to develop predictive ecosystem models of United Kingdom woodlands we have collated data from two United Kingdom woodlands - Wytham Woods and Alice Holt. Here we present data from 582 individual trees of eight taxa in the form of summary variables relating to the allometric relationships between trunk diameter, height, crown height, crown radius and trunk radial growth rate to the tree's light environment and diameter at breast height. In addition the raw data files containing the variables from which the summary data were obtained. Large sample sizes with longitudinal data spanning 22 years make these datasets useful for future studies concerned with the way trees change in size and shape over their life-span.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road , London E1 4NS, UK.
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.affiliation: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road , London E1 4NS, UK.
authors.forename: Aristides
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moustakas
authors.affiliation: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road , London E1 4NS, UK.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carey
authors.affiliation: Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.
authors.forename: Yadvinder
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Malhi
authors.affiliation: ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland , St Lucia 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Butt
authors.affiliation: Centre for Ecosystem, Society and Biosecurity, Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Wrecclesham , Farnham, Surrey GU10 4LH, UK.
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Benham
authors.affiliation: CEH-Wallingford, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh, Gifford, Wallingford , Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pallett
authors.affiliation: CEH-Wallingford, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh, Gifford, Wallingford , Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK.
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schäfer
mesh_terms: D017753:Ecosystem; D065928:Forests; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014197:Trees / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D006113:United Kingdom