A functional distance matrix of species of the dataset paracou_6_abd. Distances were computed from a trait dataset including specific leaf area, wood density, seed mass and 95th percentile of height. Gower's metric (Gower 1971) was used to obtain a distance matrix.
Source
Permanent data census of Paracou: https://paracou.cirad.fr/
Details
This dataset is from Paracou field station, French Guiana, managed by Cirad.
References
Gower JC (1971). “A General Coefficient of Similarity and Some of Its Properties.” Biometrics, 27(4), 857–871. doi:10.2307/2528823 .