Data from: Davison et al. (2023) Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark

Environmental and biodiversity data associated with the article: Davison et al. (2023) Vegetation structure from LiDAR explains the local richness of birds across Denmark, Journal of Animal Ecology. Bird richness and abundance at points across Denmark, with matched land cover and LiDAR structural data. Bird observations are a subset of the Common Bird Monitoring programme (DOF – Birdlife Denmark) and pooled from summer counts of 2014, 15, and 16. Bird functional group assignments and environmental data are from open access data sets (see below). Data source Reference Danish Common Bird Monitoring programme Eskildsen, D. P., Vikstrøm, T., & Jørgensen, M. F. (2021). Overvågning af de almindelige fuglearter i Danmark 1975-2020. Dansk Ornitologisk Forening. EcoDes-DK15 LiDAR data set of Denmark Assmann, J. J., Moeslund, J. E., Treier, U. A., & Normand, S. (2022). EcoDes-DK15: high-resolution ecological descriptors of vegetation and terrain derived from Denmark’s national airborne laser scanning data set. Earth System Science Data, 14(2), 823–844. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-823-2022 Pan-European land cover map of the year 2015 Pflugmacher, D., Rabe, A., Peters, M., & Hostert, P. (2019). Mapping pan-European land cover using Landsat spectral-temporal metrics and the European LUCAS survey. Remote Sensing of Environment, 221, 583–595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.001 AVONET bird traits data Tobias, J. A., Sheard, C., Pigot, A. L., Devenish, A. J. M., Yang, J., Neate-Clegg, M. H. C., Alioravainen, N., Weeks, T. L., Barber, R. A., Walkden, P. A., MacGregor, H. E. A., Jones, S. E. I., Vincent, C., Phillips, A. G., Marples, N. M., Montaño-Centellas, F., Leandro-Silva, V., Claramunt, S., Darski, B., … Schleunning, M. (2022). AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters, 25(3), 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898 Birds of the Palearctic - original source of trait data Cramp, S. (2006). The birds of the western Palearctic interactive. Oxford University Press and BirdGuides. Life-history characteristics of European birds - trait database Storchová, L., & Hořák, D. (2018). Life-history characteristics of European birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(4), 400–406. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12709