vegdata (version 0.8.5)

tv.traits: Load species traits from Turboveg reference list

Description

Loading Turboveg ecodbase or any other specified dBase file in this directory and do basic data evaluation. Empty columns are eliminated.

Usage

tv.traits(db, trait.db = 'ecodbase.dbf', refl, ...)

Arguments

db

Path name to the Turboveg database directory

trait.db

Name of species trait DBase file, default is 'ecodbase'

refl

Name of the taxonomic reference list, if veg is not loaded with tv.veg

...

additional arguments for tv.traits

Value

• data.frame of ecological traits, see metainfo(refl, eco=TRUE).

Details

You can use the final output line to make a summary statistic for attributes with potentially misleading '0' values. Just delete the " at beginning and end.

Examples

veg <- tv.veg('elbaue', cover.transform='pa')
# mEIV <- meanTraits('OEK_F', veg, 'ecodbase.dbf')
site <- tv.site('elbaue')
# plot(site$MGL, mEIV)