pplots: Phosphorus plots data from Avolio et al. 2014

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Phosphorus plots data from Avolio et al. 2014

Description

A dataset of tallgrass prairie plant composition in a nitrogen and phosphorus addition experiment at Konza Prairie, Manhattan Kansas (Avolio et al. 2014). This dataset is a subset of the full dataset.

Usage

data(pplots)

Format

A data frame with 1232 rows and 6 variables

Details

A data frame containing a column for replicate, year, species, abundance, block and treatment : - **plot**: An integer column of spatial replicates with 18 levels (6-48) - **year**: An integer column of sampling time points - **species**: A factor column of species sampled - **relative_cover**: A numeric column of relative cover values - **block**: An integer column of dummy blocking variable, grouping treatment plots into blocks - **treatment**: A factor column of nitrogen and phosphorus treatments applied to the plots

Source

Avolio, ML, Koerner, S, La Pierre, K, Wilcox, K, Wilson, GTW, Smith, MD, Collins, S. 2014. Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, to a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive changes in aboveground productivity in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Ecology. 102: 1649-1660.


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