Readme file for: Powers, J. S., Vargas‐G, G., Brodribb, T. J., Schwartz, N. B., Perez‐Aviles, D., Smith‐Martin, C. M., ... & Calvo‐Alvarado, J. C. (2020). A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15037 The compressed folder contains: - R studio project for analyzing the data associated to the present publication. - Scripts associated to each of the 3 questions explored in the manuscript. - Mortality_ACG_Question1 - Mortality_ACG_Question2 - Mortality_ACG_Question3 - Data files used in the manuscript in comma separate values format (.csv). - dead_trees_18plots.csv, the species code, size, recruitment year, death year; for all the dead trees in the 18 successional plots - ENSO_mortbyIND.csv, all the individual trees surveyed during ENSO-2015 in the ACG for this study. - mortality_p_year.csv, , the number of dead trees from 2008 to 2017 in 18 successional plots - rainfall_site.csv, mean annual rainfall from 2008 to 2017 in Palo Verde and Santa Rosa - species_leafhabit.csv, leaf habit for all the species with more than 25 dead trees - Species_mortality2009_2017.csv, mortality rates by species from 2008 to 2017 in 18 successional plots - traits_database.csv, trait database used to explain mortality rates.