A grid with 100 cells, each \(1^0\) by \(1^0\) in size roughly located on central India. Each cell is assigned a hypothetical assemblage of varying species richness from a hypothetical regional pool of 20 species. The attribute table of the shape file has one uniqe id field observed species richness of each cell and one expanatory variable. Observed species richness is generated by assigning a randomly selected number of species among the 20 species in the regional pool.
ID a unique id field
obs_rich observed species richness
trend a variable with spatial trend obtained using a linear function of coordinates
an ESRI shapefile imported with readShapeSpatial
with
four columns in attribute table