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BiodiversityR (version 1.5)

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.

Usage

data(BCI.env)

Arguments

source

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/295/5555/666/DC1

References

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

Examples

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data(BCI.env)

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