Extended Data Fig. 1: The importance of spectral data, vegetation indices, canopy texture parameters, climate, terrain and soil conditions for model prediction of each plant trait.
From: Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests
AreaL: leaf area, CL: leaf carbon concentration, CaL: leaf calcium concentration, DML: leaf dry mass, FML: leaf fresh mass, KL: leaf potassium concentration, MgL: leaf magnesium concentration, NL: leaf nitrogen concentration, PL: leaf phosphorus concentration, SLA: specific leaf area, ThicknessL: leaf thickness, WCL: leaf water content, WD: wood density (see Extended Data Table 1 for a description of the trait used). The importance of each variable for each trait can be seen in Supplementary Figs. 1–13. The importance values were obtained from the RF models.
