The damage caused by Typhoon Hato to three different plant communicties in Macau, China

Super typhoon Hato is the strongest typhoon
affected Macao since 1953. During the typhoon, Macao recorded a maximum hourly
average wind speed of more than 12 degrees with the maximum gust speed of 217.4
km/h and a rainfall of more than 30 mm. Moreover, the typhoon happened to
coincide with a high astronomical tide, causing severe damage to plants
throughout the area. The forest ecosystem suffered sudden and severe damage. To
investigate the characteristics and regularity of the damage to forests caused
by this extremely strong typhoon, three representative vegetation types in
Macao were selected in this study. This dataset is the statistics of dynamic
changes of plant restoration and community characteristics, as well as the
response of plant phenology to the post-disaster recovery from three
representative communities selected from the permanent sample plots for
phenological monitoring since 2011 in Macao. This research might also serve as
a reference for future research on typhoon hazard on forest and breeding of
local wind-resistant plants.