DOI: 10.5061/dryad.83bk3jb29
title: Data from: Tree growth rate-mediated trade-off between drought resistance and recovery in the Northern Hemisphere

description: The frequency and severity of drought events have increased with climate
 warming. This poses a significant threat to tree growth and survival
 worldwide. However, the underlying mechanism of tree growth responses to
 drought across diverse geographic regions and species remains
 inconclusive. Here, we used 2808 tree ring width chronologies of 32
 species from 1951 to 2020 to examine the relationships between growth
 rates and resistance and recovery of trees in response to drought in the
 Northern Hemisphere. We found that trees with fast growth rates exhibited
 lower drought resistance but higher drought recovery compared to those
 with slow growth rates, which was further corroborated by the trade-off
 between resistance and recovery in response to variations in leaf
 photosynthetic traits. The difference in growth rates also well explained
 the large variability in the drought resistance and recovery for different
 geographic regions as well as for species from different clades and
 successional stages. Our study provides a conclusive and uniform
 perspective that tree growth rate regulates drought resistance and
 recovery, shedding light on the diverse strategies employed by tree
 species in response to drought stress in the Northern Hemisphere.
description: # **Data from: Tree growth rate-mediated trade-off between drought
 resistance and recovery in the Northern Hemisphere**
 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.83bk3jb29](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.83bk3jb29) ## Description of the data and file structure R_code.zip contains all the R codes for the analyses. Martínez-Sancho_et_al._tree_ring_data.zip contains raw tree ring data. ### Files and variables #### File: R\_code.zip **Description:** R_code.zip contains commented R codes for all analyses in the paper. The total script is divided into 7 separate files with titles describing the overall theme of each script file. #### File: Martínez-Sancho\_et\_al.\_tree\_ring\_data.zip **Description:** Martínez-Sancho_et_al._tree_ring_data.zip contains tree ring data from Martínez-Sancho et al. (doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0340-y). ## Code/software R_code.zip are all R codes. ## Access information Other publicly accessible locations of data used in this study: *  The tree ring data can be obtained from the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB, [https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/](https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/)). * The Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) data can be downloaded from the Global SPEI dataset at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) ([http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/202305](http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/202305)). * The mean temperature data can be obtained from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU TS version 4.08) ([https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.08/cruts.2406270035.v4.08/tmp/](https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.08/cruts.2406270035.v4.08/tmp/)). * The Vcmax data can be obtained from Chen et al. ([https://zenodo.org/record/6466968](https://zenodo.org/record/6466968)).