Imaging spectroscopy reveals the effects of topography and logging on the leaf chemistry of tropical forest canopy trees

We gratefully acknowledge the Sabah Biodiversity Council, the Maliau Basin and Danum Valley Management Committees, the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at the University of Malaysia, Sabah, and the Sabah Forestry Department, South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership, Yayasan Sabah, Benta Wawasan, the State Secretary, Sabah Chief Minister's Departments, Sabah Biodiversity Centre and the Economic Planning Unit for their support, access to the field site and for permission to carry out fieldwork in Sabah. This work was funded through NERC's Human Modified Tropical Forests research programme (grant number NE/K016377/1 awarded to the BALI consortium) and by the Sime Darby Foundation. MS and JK were funded through a grant from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (grant number: INTER‐TRANSFER LTT17017). DAC was supported by an international travel grant from the Leverhulme Trust. DAC and TS were supported by the Frank Jackson Trust. We are grateful to NERC's Airborne Research Facility and Data Analysis Node for conducting the airborne survey and preprocessing the data. We thank Dr. Reuben Nilus who facilitated research in Sabah, and Laura Kruitbos, Unding Jami and the many field assistants who contributed to logistics and data collection. We thank Greg Asner for helpful discussions with DAC while at the Carnegie lab, five anonymous reviewers and Dr Toby Jackson for their highly relevant and constructive input.Peer reviewedPublisher PD