wdData: The global wood density database

In BIOMASS: Estimating Aboveground Biomass and Its Uncertainty in Tropical Forests

The global wood density database

Description

The global wood density database (Chave et al. 2009, Zanne et al. 2009).

Usage

data("wdData")

Format

A data frame with 16467 observations on the following 7 variables.

• family: a character vector indicating the family

• genus: a character vector indicating the genus

• species: a character vector indicating the species

• wd: a numeric vector of wood densities (g/cm^3)

• region: a character vector of regions (see getWoodDensity())

• referenceNumber: a numeric vector of reference numbers (bibliography)

• regionId: a character vector of region ids

Details

This dataset is used in the function getWoodDensity(), to estimate a taxon-average wood density value.

Source

Zanne et al. Global wood density database. Dryad. Identifier: http://datadryad.org/handle/10255/dryad.235 (2009).

References

Chave et al. (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology letters 12:4, 351-366.

Examples

data(wdData)
str(wdData)

BIOMASS documentation built on Sept. 29, 2023, 5:09 p.m.