Datasets used for the publication: UAV-Lidar reveals that canopy structure mediates the influence of edge effects on forest diversity, function and microclimate

Datasets used for the publication: UAV-Lidar reveals that canopy structure mediates the influence of edge effects on forest diversity, function and microclimate.

The file "Blanchard_et_al_JoE_2023_data_plot_trees.csv" contains individual tree indentification data for the 46 plots used in the study.

The file "Blanchard_et_al_JoE_2023_data_plot_aggregated.csv" contains plot-level aggregated metrics used for the analyses:

- distance to the forest edge

- diversity indices : the 20-sp rarefied species richness "rar_sp_richness_20" and the 20-sp rarefied Beta diversity "Beta_div" which corresponds to the plos coordinates on the PCoA first axis.

- functional indices: the community weighted mean trait values for the four traits used in this study : ,"WD","SLA","LA","LDMC"; the fonctional divergence index "FD_trans.FDiv"; and the synthetic community weigthed mean trait wich corresponds to the postion on plots on the principal component analysis of species trait values "Functional_composition_trans". Note that the SLA and LA values were log-transformed before computing "FD_trans.FDiv" and "Functional_composition_trans".

- UAV-LiDAR-dervived metrics: canopy height, gap fraction ("gap_fraction2"), slope, curvature

- The estimated plot above graound biomass "agb_plot", and the mean value of the vapor pressure deficit during the drisest month "max_monthly_VPD".

- coordinates of the plots in UTM 58S (Coordinate reference system)

Please read the material and method section of the article for more informations on this dataset.