First-Year Tree Seedling Survival and Growth Under Experimental Heat and Drought

Emily MacDonald published data on figshare in 2026 from a project testing experimental drought and heat treatments on first-year tree seedlings common to the northeastern United States. The datasets include seedling-level metrics of survival and growth, substrate moisture, and traits like leaf mass per area and root-to-shoot biomass ratio. The dataset size is listed as 0.0 B, indicating a very limited scope.

Use Cases

• Modeling seedling mortality risk based on combined heat and drought stress.
• Analyzing relationships between plant traits like turgor loss point and survival outcomes.
• Comparing growth metrics such as height and total biomass across different experimental treatments.
• Studying the impact of environmental stress on root-to-shoot biomass allocation.

Strengths

• Includes multiple measured traits per seedling, such as leaf mass per area and minimum epidermal conductance.
• Focuses on first-year survival, a critical demographic bottleneck for tree populations.
• Data is associated with a specific experimental project testing heat and drought treatments.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset size is listed as 0.0 B, suggesting a very small or placeholder file.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Data collected from an experimental project applying controlled heat and drought treatments to tree seedlings.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 06:38:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northeastern United States