globalPlants: Global Plants data

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Global Plants data

Description

Data inspired by a worldwide study of plant height and its association with climate and latitude (Moles et al. 2009). Height is recorded for one dominant plant at each of 178 sites, along with dozens of climatic variables extracted from BIOCLIM. Sites, climate data and species lists come from Moles et al. (2009) but height data are not actually field measurements, due to data unavailability. Instead height has been taken from species descriptions available on Google, accessed 7/1/21.

Usage

data(globalPlants)

Format

A dataframe containing a whole bunch of stuff, the main things being:

height

Maximum plant height, in metres, taken from species descriptions on Google (where available)

lat

latitude of the site this plant was found at

temp

average daily maximum temperature

rain

total annual precipitation

rain.wetm

Rainfall in the wettest month

References

Moles et al. (2009) Global patterns in plant height. Journal of Ecology 97, 923-932.

Examples

data(globalPlants)
plot(height~lat,data=globalPlants)

ecostats documentation built on July 4, 2024, 9:06 a.m.