Table S1 Growth-form, Leaf-habit and seedling traits of the 53 studied woody species. Growth-form: T tree, S shrub,SS subshrub, C+Sc scrambler or climber; Leaf-habit:D deciduous, E evergreen. RGR relative growth rate (dataset could be found in Cornelissen et al. (1996)). Majority part of these datasets -Stem xylem area , Leaf (midvein) xylem area , Total leaf area and Average leaf area - could be found in (Zhong et al. , 2019). The dataset of average stomatal area could be found in (Cornelissen, Cerabolini, Castro-Díez, Villar-Salvador, Montserrat-Martí, Puyravaud, Maestro, Werger & Aerts, 2003b). The entire dataset of this research was provided here for easy access.