bird.spec.fine: Australia Bird Atlas Species Occurrence Dataset at Fine Scale...

bird.spec.fineR Documentation

Australia Bird Atlas Species Occurrence Dataset at Fine Scale over South-East Australia

Description

Inventory of bird species occurrence in 604, 25 x 25 km sites.

Usage

data(bird.spec.fine)

Format

A data frame with 604 rows (sites) and 193 columns (xy coordinates and species).

Details

  • x: x-position in meters in UTM 53 South projection

  • y: y-position in meters in UTM 53 South projection

  • columns 3-192: bird species occurrence

Location: Australia – 50° 33' 5.03" S, 135° 21' 10.40" E

Data owner: BirdLife Australia

The original bird occurrence data were arranged into a continuous grid covering South-East Australia. Only cells whose richness was within 10 percents of real estimated richness are included here, so that the data corresponds to presence-absence data.

References

Barrett, G., Silcocks, A., Barry, S., Cunningham, R. & Poulter, R. (2003) The new atlas of Australian birds. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Melbourne, 1-824.


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