mtfield: Vegetation and site data from Mount Field, Tasmania

In phytomosaic/ecole: ecole: School of Ecology Package

Description

Vegetation and site data from Mount Field, Tasmania, collected by Peter Minchin. Taxonomic treatment as recorded in 1983. This is a subset of the original 438 sample units and 221 species.

Usage

mtfield

Format

A list of 2 data.frames:
- spe Species abundance matrix: 424 observations of 209 vascular plant species. Values are cover classes (midpoints = 0.05, 0.55, 5.5, 20, 50, 85 percent).
- env Environmental matrix: 424 observations of 4 environmental variables describing topography (altitude, drainage, radiation, slope).

Source

Minchin (1983), as communicated by Roberts (2020).

References

Minchin, P. R. 1983. A comparative evaluation of techniques for ecological ordination using simulated vegetation data and an integrated ordination-classification analysis of the alpine and subalpine plant communities of the Mt. Field plateau, Tasmania. Doctoral dissertation, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.

Roberts, D.W. 2020. Comparison of distance‐based and model‐based ordinations. Ecology 101(1):e02908. doi:10.1002/ecy.2908.

See Also

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9912551.v1 and https://parks.tas.gov.au/explore-our-parks/mount-field-national-park

Examples

# split into two data.frames
data(mtfield)
spe <- mtfield$spe
env <- mtfield$env

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