Source data from: Xiaoxia Yi, Grégoire Vincent, Tianyu Hu, Jianli Liu, James Lutz, Haibao Ren, Lei Chen, David F. R. P. Burslem, Joseph D. Birch, Min Cao, James W. Dalling, David A. Coomes, Géraldine Derroire, Hu Du, Shuai Fang, Guangze Jin, Jinbo Li, Fei Lin, Hongwei Ni, Michael J. O'Brien, Guochun Shen, Xihua Wang, Xingyu Wang, Jie Yang, Fuping Zeng, Daoguang Zhu,Yan Zhu, Yanjun Su, Qinghua Guo, Keping Ma, Xiangcheng Mi. Canopy structural diversity modulates the effect of climate on primary productivity in forests.

This dataset includes species diversity, canopy structural diversity, forest productivity, topographic variables, climatic variables from 16 forest dynamics plots:

The species diversity and forest productivity data were calculated from ground census data;

The canopy structural diversity was calculated from airborne laser scanning data;

 Topographic variables were calculated from elevational data of each plot;

Climatic variables were downloaded from WorldClim using the center coordinates of each plot.