lichen_spe: North American epiphytic macrolichen data

In phytomosaic/vuln: Niche-based Vulnerability of Species and Communities

Description

This data set gives information about spatial coordinates, species, and site descriptors for North American macrolichens.

Usage

data(lichen_spe)
data(lichen_id)
data(lichen_mex)

Format

Multiple objects:
- spe dataframe, 443 lichen species (columns) at 6474 sites (rows), with 75740 unique occurrences. Each cell is lichen abundance measured on an approximately logarithmic 0-4 scale. Source: FIA.
- id dataframe, 57 site descriptors (columns) at 6474 sites (rows). Spatial coordinates are fuzzed for privacy of landowners. Source: FIA.
- mex dataframe, combined species and site descriptors (columns) for each of 172127 unique occurrences (rows) from herbarium records across 46343 unique locations. Source: CNALH.

Details

Species data were sourced either from the US Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis program (FIA 2011), or the Consortium for North American Lichen Herbaria (CNALH 2018), as collated by Smith et al. (2019). Species should be identical among the FIA and CNALH datasets. Climate data originated from ClimateNA (Wang et al. 2016).

References

Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria [CNALH]. 2018. Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria. URL: http://lichenportal.org/portal/.

Smith, R.J., S. Jovan, and B. McCune. 2019. Vulnerability of forest lichen communities to species loss under climatic warming. Unpublished manuscript.

US Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis [FIA]. 2011. Phase 3 Field Guide – Lichen Communities, Version 5.1.

Wang, T., A. Hamann, D. Spittlehouse, and C. Carroll. 2016. Locally downscaled and spatially customizable climate data for historical and future periods for North America. PLoS ONE 11:e0156720.

phytomosaic/vuln documentation built on Sept. 21, 2019, 8:23 a.m.