gypsophylous {ecespa}R Documentation

Spatial point pattern of a plant community

Description

Locations of plants in a gypsophylous plant community in Central Spain. These are part of the data collected by Romao (2003) that have been analyzed several times (Escudero et al. 2005, De la Cruz 2006). The coordinates of the plans are given in cm.

Usage

data(gypsophylous)

Format

An object of class "ppp" of spatstat representing the point pattern of plants locations. See ppp.object for details of the format.

Source

Romao, R.L. 2003. Estructura espacial de comunidades de gipsofitos: interacciones bioticas y constricciones abioticas. Tesis Doctoral Inedita. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.

References

De la Cruz, M. 2006. Introduccion al analisis de datos mapeados o algunas de las (muchas) cosas que puedo hacer si tengo coordenadas. Ecosistemas. 2006/3. http://www.revistaecosistemas.net/articulo.asp?Id=488&Id_Categoria=1&tipo=portada.

Escudero, A., Romao, R.L., De la Cruz, M. & Maestre, F. 2005. Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community. J. Veg. Sci., 16: 383-390.

Examples

data(gypsophylous)
plot(gypsophylous)

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