BCI.env: Barro Colorado Island Quadrat Descriptions
Description
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.source
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/295/5555/666/DC1References
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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