BCI.env {BiodiversityR} | R Documentation |
Environmental characteristics and UTM coordinates of a 50 ha sample plot (consisting of 50 1-ha quadrats) from Barro Colorado Island of Panama. Dataset BCI
provides the tree species composition (trees with diameter at breast height equal or larger than 10 cm) of the same plots.
data(BCI.env)
A data frame with 50 observations on the following 6 variables.
UTM.EW
UTM.NS
Precipitation
Elevation
Age.cat
c1
c2
c3
Geology
pT
Tb
Tbo
Tc
Tcm
Tct
Tgo
Tl
Tlc
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/295/5555/666/DC1
Pyke CR, Condit R, Aguilar S and Lao S. (2001). Floristic composition across a climatic gradient in a neotropical lowland forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 12: 553-566.
Condit, R, Pitman, N, Leigh, E.G., Chave, J., Terborgh, J., Foster, R.B., Nunez, P., Aguilar, S., Valencia, R., Villa, G., Muller-Landau, H.C., Losos, E. & Hubbell, S.P. (2002). Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees. Science 295: 666-669.
Kindt, R. & Coe, R. (2005) Tree diversity analysis: A manual and software for common statistical methods for ecological and biodiversity studies.
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/treesandmarkets/tree_diversity_analysis.asp
data(BCI.env)