Paper title: ‘Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum’
Authors: Marielle N. Smith*, Scott C. Stark, Tyeen C. Taylor, Juliana Schietti, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, Susan Aragón, Kelly Torralvo, Albertina P. Lima, Gabriel de Oliveira, Rafael Leandro de Assis, Veronika Leitold, Aline Pontes Lopes, Ricardo Scoles, Luciana Cristina de Sousa Vieira, Angelica Faria Resende, Alysha I. Coppola, Diego Oliveira Brandão, João de Athaydes Silva Junior, Laura F. Lobato, Wagner Freitas, Daniel Almeida, Mendell S. Souza, David M. Minor, Juan Camilo Villegas, Darin J. Law, Nathan Gonçalves, Daniel Gomes da Rocha, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Hélio Tonini, Kátia Emídio da Silva, Joost van Haren, Diogo Martins Rosa, Dalton Freitas do Valle, Carlos Leandro Cordeiro, Nicolas Zaslavsky de Lima, Gang Shao, Imma Oliveras Menor, Georgina Conti, Ana Paula Florentino, Lía Montti, Luiz E.O.C. Aragão, Sean M. McMahon, Geoffrey G. Parker, David D. Breshears, Antonio Carlos Lola Da Costa, William E. Magnusson, Rita Mesquita, José Luís C. Camargo, Raimundo C. de Oliveira, Plinio B. de Camargo, Scott R. Saleska, Bruce Walker Nelson
Journal: Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment
Year: 2022
Date: 19 April 2022
*Please contact Marielle Smith (mariellenatashasmith@gmail.com) with any questions.
This repository contains disturbed and control forest datasets from the ground-based profiling canopy lidar (PCL) database for Amazonia (PCL-Am), as presented in Smith et al. 2022 (Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment), comprising the following files:
- PCL-Am_disturbed_control_metrics_V1.csv
- PCL-Am_disturbed_control_profiles_V1.csv
- PCL-Am disturbed forest dataset README.docx
Ground-based lidar data for the following sites have been published previously and those original papers should be cited if data from them are used: TNF Seca Floresta drought plot and Alter do Chão savanna (Stark et al. 2020), BDFFP forest fragment (Dimona) and contiguous forest (Almeida et al. 2019), Reserva Ducke (Stark et al. 2012), Careiro Castanho (burnt terra firme and igapó and control plots) (Almeida et al. 2016). For all other sites, please cite Smith et al. 2022 (Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment). Please see README for more details and full references.