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Spatiotemporal data for studying the dry forest-rainforest ecotone in Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Abstract

This data package contains data supporting the manuscript "Climate and topography control variation in the tropical dry forest–rainforest ecotone." The contents include 1) compositeMODIS_ALL_20220713.tif: a GeoTIFF image file of biweekly composite MODIS NDVI from 2000 to 2021. This was acquired using GoogleEarthEngine and subsetted to the study area.

2) guanClimate.csv: a spreadsheet of climate variables averaged for the study area. These were derived from the CHELSA interpolated climate dataset and the Multivariate ENSO Index v2 (https://psl.noaa.gov/enso/mei/).

3) guan_DEM.tif: a GeoTIFF digital elevation model for the study area.

4) guan_TWI.tif: a GeoTIFF of the Topographic Wetness Index (TWI) for the study area. 

5) guanacaste.shp, .shx, .dbf, .sbx, .sbn: a shapefile of the Guanacaste administrative boundary, which is also the study area boundary.

5) ImageMetadata_20220714.csv: a spreadsheet of information about the bands contained in compositeMODIS_ALL_20220613.tif.

These reflect derived datasets developed from publicly available sources.

Methods and data sources are described briefly below and in detail in the paper.

Processing and analysis code are archived in a linked Zenodo repository.