Overall, the absolute trait dimensions were not fully independent from the relative trait dimensions (Tab. \ref{402778}), PCabs1 being positively correlated with PCrel1 (r = 0.81, p<0.001) and PCabs2 being negatively correlated with PCrel2 (r = -0.62, p<0.001). On one hand, this reveals that larger trees had, generally, longer and more costly (full) crowns; and slender trees were more symmetrical. On the other hand, the diversity patterns only agreed between the secondary axes: PCabs2 and PCrel2, and were opposite for the primary axes: PCabs1 vs. PCrel1. Particularly, the symmetrical trees were typically slender (both with little structural variation); while some of the small and narrow-crowned trees (with little variation in size) had even shorter crown lengths and thus higher values and a larger variation in terms of the crown aspect ratio (CW_CL). This is an important result to note the difference in information carried by PCAabs and PCArel, PCArel revealing more detail.