Extended Data Table 2 Description of the vegetation plots used across the tropical forests and their abiotic characteristics

From: Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests

  1. N, number of vegetation plots; N Pixels, number of Sentinel-2 satellite pixels used; area (ha), planimetric pixel area used; MCWD, mean maximum climatic water deficit; Tmax, average maximum temperature; slope, average terrain slope. The average and coefficient of variation (CV as a percentage) are given for each climatic variable and were calculated using a climatology of the last 30 years (1988 and 2017). The climate data were extracted from the TerraClimate dataset34 and the slope was derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM; www.earthdata.nasa.gov/sensors/srtm).
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