Percentage forest cover within a 1-km radius of 50 sampling locations.
Usage
data(forestpct)
Arguments
format
The format is:
num [1:50] 63.9 71.3 72.5 77.1 18.4 ...
source
The 1992 NLCD data can be obtained from http://www.mrlc.gov/.
Details
Forest landcover is taken from the USGS 1992 National Land Cover Dataset. All forest classes were combined, and the percentage within 1 km of the sample sites was calculated using a GIS.
