Short-Term Effects of Moderate Severity Disturbances on Forest Canopy Structure- Derived Data

NEON plot-level derived tables used in this study. All the derived data were openly available from The National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).

01: R codes for 01) LiDAR-derived canopy metrics calculation; 02) Modelling

02: Input ground survey data with removed duplicate rows (tree_rm_duplicates.csv); CSV files - NEON vegestructure data (disturbance_structural_diversity_data_2022_1109_den4.csv)

All NEON’s Discrete return LiDAR point cloud (DP1.30003.001) (NEON 2021a) and Vegetation structure (DP1.10098.001) (NEON 2022) data are available on NEON data portal as follows: https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.30003.001 (https://doi.org/10.48443/6E8K-3343), and https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10098.001/RELEASE-2022 (https://doi.org/10.48443/RE8N-TN87), respectively.

R scripts for calculating canopy metrics (Hardiman et al. 2021) are available on Environmental Data Initiative (EDI): https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/97f8092c10aecbc62aec12557ecb52bd

Reference

Hardiman, B.S., E.A. LaRue, J.R. Foster, R. Fahey, and J. Hatala Matthes. 2021. Forest structural diversity at NEON sites in the continuous USA that experienced recent moderate disturbance ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/97f8092c10aecbc62aec12557ecb52bd (Accessed 2023-05-24).

NEON. 2021a. Discrete return LiDAR point cloud (DP1.30003.001). National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). doi: https://doi.org/10.48443/6E8K-3343.

NEON. 2022. Vegetation structure (DP1.10098.001). National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). doi: https://doi.org/10.48443/RE8N-TN87.