readWall2014: Read in Wall 2014 (soil carbon content in McMurdo Dry...

Description Usage Arguments Value

View source: R/readWall2014.R

Description

Reads in data from Diana Wall and Ross Virginia. 2014. McMurdo Dry Valleys Soil Elevational Transect Experiment. LTER Network Member Node. https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-mcm/4003/5. looks at soil carbon content in Antarctica, a continent with tundra climate. This data set studied the number of soil organisms (nematodes, rotifers and tardigrades), divided by species, sex and maturity was monitored at 3 elevations, initially in Taylor Valley (1993) then Garwood and Miers Valleys (2012). In this study, the organic and inorganic carbon content was also measured of the soils.

Usage

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readWall2014(dataDir = "data/Wall2014")

Arguments

dataDir

string that specifies the data directory

Value

a list that contains the tabular dataset, a tabular version of the meta-data, the file names of the local data copies, a list of study information (abstract, copy rights, method notes)


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