genus2 gives the abundance of 15 common tree genera in the tropical moist forest of the Congo-Basin and 46 geo-referenced environmental variables on one thousand 8 by 8 km plots (observations). Each plot's data was obtained by aggregating the data measured on a variable number of previously sampled 0.5 ha sub-plots. Geo-referenced environmental variables were used to describe the physical factors as well as vegetation characteristics. 23 physical factors were used pertaining the description of topography, geology and rainfall of each plot. Vegetation is characterized through 16-days enhanced vegetation index (EVI) data.
Format
gen1 to gen15 | abundance of 15 common genera. |
evi_1 to evi_23 | 16-days enhanced vegetation indexes. |
MIR and NIR | Middle-Infrared and Near-Infrared channels. |
pluvio_an | mean annual rainfall. |
pluvio_1 to pluvio_12 | monthly rainfalls. |
altitude | above-sea level in meters. |
mois_sec_50 and mois_sec_50 | ??? |
CWD, awd and mcwd | ??? |
wetness | ??? |
center_x and center_y | longitude and latitude of the plot centers. |
geology | 5-level geological substrate. |
inventory | forest concession id number. |
surface | sampled area. |
References
S. Gourlet-Fleury et al. (2009--2014) CoForChange project: http://coforchange.cirad.fr/
C. Garcia et al. (2013--2015) CoForTips project: https://www.cofortips.org/