CABO forest inventory survey data: Canopy-level spectra, species abundances, and environmental conditions

This dataset contains the forest inventory survey data as aqcuired by airborne imaging spectroscopy (i.e., continuum removed spectral reflectance) and field inventory surveys (i.e., relative species abundance) for 65 field plots along a temperate-to-boreal forest gradient in southern Québec, Canada. Additionally, it contains plot-level average environmental variables (e.g., elevation, slope, etc.) and species-mean foliar traits. This data supports the manuscript titled "Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis" in press at Ecological Monographs (ID: ECM23-0177) and accompanying code (Crofts 2024) is archieved on Zenodo (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10735410). Please refer to the methods section of the associated paper for methodological details, with additional details available at protocols.io (doi: 10.17504/protocols.io.q26g7rn23vwz/v2). This data was aqcuired as a part of the Canadian Airborne Biodiversity Observatory (CABO; caboscience.org) and has the licence Creative Commons by Attribution (cc-by). Note: this dataset is also published of EcoSiS (https://ecosis.org/package/cabo-canopy-level-spectra-from-forest-sites)