Data from: Davison et al. (2023) Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark

Environmental and biodiversity data associated with the article: Davison et al. (2023) Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark, Journal of Animal Ecology.

Bird richness and abundance at points across Denmark, with matched land cover and LiDAR structural data. Bird observations are a subset of the Common Bird Monitoring programme (DOF – Birdlife Denmark) and pooled from summer counts of 2014, 15, and 16. Bird functional group assignments and environmental data are from open access data sets (see below).

Data source
Reference

Danish Common Bird Monitoring programme
Eskildsen, D. P., Vikstrøm, T., & Jørgensen, M. F. (2021). Overvågning af de almindelige fuglearter i Danmark 1975-2020. Dansk Ornitologisk Forening.

EcoDes-DK15 LiDAR data set of Denmark
Assmann, J. J., Moeslund, J. E., Treier, U. A., & Normand, S. (2022). EcoDes-DK15: high-resolution ecological descriptors of vegetation and terrain derived from Denmark’s national airborne laser scanning data set. Earth System Science Data, 14(2), 823–844. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-823-2022

Pan-European land cover map of the year 2015 
Pflugmacher, D., Rabe, A., Peters, M., & Hostert, P. (2019). Mapping pan-European land cover using Landsat spectral-temporal metrics and the European LUCAS survey. Remote Sensing of Environment, 221, 583–595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.001

AVONET bird traits data
Tobias, J. A., Sheard, C., Pigot, A. L., Devenish, A. J. M., Yang, J., Neate-Clegg, M. H. C., Alioravainen, N., Weeks, T. L., Barber, R. A., Walkden, P. A., MacGregor, H. E. A., Jones, S. E. I., Vincent, C., Phillips, A. G., Marples, N. M., Montaño-Centellas, F., Leandro-Silva, V., Claramunt, S., Darski, B., … Schleunning, M. (2022). AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters, 25(3), 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898

Birds of the Palearctic - original source of trait data 
Cramp, S. (2006). The birds of the western Palearctic interactive. Oxford University Press and BirdGuides.

Life-history characteristics of European birds - trait database
Storchová, L., & Hořák, D. (2018). Life-history characteristics of European birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(4), 400–406. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12709