Leaf area and shape for Virentes species

Leaf laminar area (mm2) and shape variables based on the first six principal components from analysis of leaf shape for 5,818 scanned leaves from 695 individual trees of seven Virentes species. The approach is based on a quantitative evaluation of the contour shape of each leaf with elliptic Fourier descriptors using the Shape 1.2 imaging software (Iwata & Ukai 2002). The data file also includes source location information of each tree, geographic coordinates, and Bioclim variables associated with each location.