Title of the dataset:
Plant-traits and plant-spectra fpr 53 herbaceous species

Creators:
Hans Roelofsen

Related publication:
Roelofsen, Hans D., et al. "Predicting leaf traits of herbaceous species from their spectral characteristics." Ecology and evolution 4.6 (2014): 706-719.

Description:
This dataset contains: 
  reflection and transmission spectra for 53 herbaceous plants, measured on individual plant leaves
  plant-descriptions
  measured plant traits:
    leaf Nitrogen Content, Leaf Carbon Content, Leaf Phosphorous Content
    fresh weight, dry weight, leaf-dry-matter content
    area, specific-leaf-area

Keywords:
plant traits, leaf reflectance, leaf transmission, 


Spatial coverage:
Plants sampled in various locations throughout the Netherlands

Temporal coverage:
Plants sampled june-aug 2011


This dataset contains the following files:

  FinalPlantTraitsAll.txt
    plant trait values per plant. Plant traits are: leaf Nitrogen Content, Leaf Carbon Content, Leaf Phosphorous Content, fresh weight, dry weight, leaf-dry-matter content, leaf area, specific-leaf-area

  FinalPlantTraitsAll_column_description.txt
    explanation of columns in "FinalPlantTraitsAll.txt", including units

  FinalTrans2.txt
    Leaf transmission spectra per plant

  FinRefl.txt
    Leaf reflectance spectra per plan  

  plantMD.csv
    Plant metadta, including sample-time and sample-location 

  R_smoothed3.pdf
    leaf reflectance plots

  TSmoothed1.pdf
    leaf transmission plots


Methods, materials and software:
See publication


This dataset is published under the CC BY NC SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0


