weeds {primer}R Documentation

Percent cover of six perennial herbaceous plants

Description

Percent cover of six of the most common herbaceous perennial species from the Buell-Small long term succession study (http://www.ecostudies.org/bss/). Data are plot-level visual estimates of percent cover.

Usage

data(weeds)

Format

A data frame with 15140 observations on the following 8 variables.

X
a numeric vector
Genus
a factor with levels Aster, Euthamia, Solidago
Epithet
a factor with levels canadensis, gigantea, graminifolia, novae-angliae, pilosus, rugosa
FieldName
a factor with levels C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, D1, D2, D3, E1, E2
Age
a numeric vector indicating the number of years of succession, since abandonment from agriculture.
PlotId
a numeric vector
Cover
a numeric vector; percent cover, estimated visually.
Species
a factor with levels A.novae-angliae, A.pilosus, E.graminifolia, S.canadensis, S.gigantea, S.rugosa

Source

Data graciously provided by Scott Meiners (Eastern Illinois University, http://www.ecostudies.org/bss/).

References

Stevens, M.H.H. (2009) A Primer of Ecology with R. Use R! Series. Springer.

Examples

data(weeds)
str(weeds); 
library(lattice)
xyplot(Cover ~ Age, data=weeds, groups=Species, type=c("a"),
auto.key=list(lines=TRUE, points=FALSE, columns=3),
ylim=c(-1,20))

[Package primer version 0.2 Index]