A marked point pattern dataset about four rainforest tree species.
data_rainforest
A ppp
object (see package spatstat
) with 7251 points, containing:
An object of type owin
(see package spatstat
), the 1000x500 metres observation area
Numeric vectors with points' coordinates
A character vector matching the tree species to the data points
This dataset documents the presence of tree species over Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
Barro Colorado Island has been the focus of intensive research on lowland tropical
rainforest since 1923 (http://www.ctfs.si.edu). Research identified several tree species
over a rectangular observation window of size 1000x500 metres; the tree species
constitute the point data categorical mark. This dataset presents 4 species with
different spatial configurations: Acalypha diversifolia, Chamguava schippii,
Inga pezizifera and Rinorea sylvatica. The overall dataset has a total number of 7251 points.
The dataset is analyzed with spatial entropy measures in Altieri et al (2017) (references can be
found at SpatEntropy
).