DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s90b488
title: Data from: Global patterns of tree stem growth and stand aboveground wood production in mangrove forests

description: Mangrove forests provide important ecological and economic services
 including carbon sequestration and storage. The conservation and
 restoration of mangroves are expected to play an important role in
 mitigating climate change, and understanding the factors influencing
 mangrove stem growth and wood production are important in predicting and
 improving mangrove carbon sequestration and responses to environmental
 change. In this study, we collected data of individual diameter at breast
 height (DBH) growth rate and stand level aboveground wood production in
 both non-plantation (commonly termed as natural) mangroves and mangrove
 plantations across the world. Climatic factors, proxies of edaphic
 factors, as well as biological factors (e.g. mangrove species) were
 included as explanatory variables in the analyses to determine factors
 influencing the global patterns of tree growth rate and stand wood
 production of mangroves. Using hierarchical Classification and Regression
 Tree (CART) analysis we found interactions among environmental and
 biological factors in controlling mangrove tree growth rate and stand wood
 production. We also found different global patterns of tree growth rate
 and stand wood production between non-plantation mangroves and
 plantations. Climatic conditions (precipitation of driest season,
 precipitation seasonality) were the most important factors influencing the
 global pattern of tree DBH growth rate in non-plantation mangroves, with
 edaphic and biological characteristics also playing a role under specific
 climatic conditions. The global pattern of stand wood production in
 non-plantation mangroves was primarily determined by stand mean DBH growth
 rate of individual trees. However, in mangrove plantations management
 measures, specifically species selection and planting density, were the
 most important factors influencing the global patterns of tree growth rate
 and stand wood production. Our study provides parameters for a global
 estimation of long-term carbon sequestration in both non-plantation
 mangroves and mangrove plantations. In addition, our results help us
 better predict the dynamics of tree growth and carbon sequestration of
 non-plantation mangroves under changing climate.
description: Tree stem growth rates
 (DBH growth rate, basal area growth rate and wood growth rate) in natural
 mangrove forests across the worldWe collected DBH growth
 rate data from published literature and unpublished data of co-authors.
 Data of basal area growth was calculated from initial DBH and DBH growth
 rate. Aboveground wood growth rate was calculated from allometric
 equations.Non-plantation (tree growth
 rates).xlsxStand aboveground wood
 production in natural mangrove forests across the world.Data were collected from
 published literature.Non-plantation (stand wood
 production).xlsxStand mean DBH growth
 rate and stand wood production in mangrove plantations across the
 worldData were collected from
 published literature.Plantations.xlsxLiteratureThe literature used for data collection