Summary data for "Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures: a meta-analysis"

<p>This is the dataset used in "Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures: a meta-analysis" published in Frontiers in Forests &amp; Global Change.&nbsp;</p><p>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.</p><p>For each treatment we also provide the species richness, age and species. We provide the longitude, latitude and country for each study site.</p><p>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.&nbsp;</p>