ecodist (version 1.1.0)

graze: Grazed vegetation data.

Description

These data contain the plant community compositions of 50 grazed pastures in the northeastern United States. Elements are the mean values for canopy cover for ten 0.5 x 2 m quadrats.

Usage

data(graze)

format

A data frame with 50 observations on 115 species variables.

source

Details of these data are available in Tracy and Sanderson (2000) and Goslee, Sanderson and Tracy (ms in review).

Details

Species names follow the USDA Plants database.

References

Species codes are from http://plants.usda.gov. Tracy, B.F. and M.A. Sanderson. 2000. Patterns of plant species richness in pasture lands of the northeast United States. Plant Ecology 149:169-180.

Examples

data(graze)
## maybe str(graze) ; plot(graze) ...