BraunBlanquetReduce: Reduce 9 Point Braun-Blanquet Abundance Scale to 7 Point

In vegsoup: Classes and Methods for Phytosociology

Description

Revert Braun-Blanquet abundance scale from extended (new) to simple (old).

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'Vegsoup'
BraunBlanquetReduce(x)

Arguments

x	Vegsoup* object.

Details

Converts from 9 to 7 point Braun-Blanquet scale by merging abundance classes "2a" and "2b" to "2" and "2m" to "1". Of course, there is no way to convert from 7 to 9 point scale.

Value

returns an object depending on the input class.

Author(s)

Roland Kaiser

References

Peet, R.K. & Roberts D.W. (2013). Classification of natural and semi-natural vegetation. In Vegetation Ecology (van der Maarel, E. & Franklin, J. eds). Wiley-Blackwell.

See Also

Coverscale, coverscale

Examples

require(vegsoup)

data(barmstein)
x <- barmstein

xr <- BraunBlanquetReduce(x)
coverscale(x)
coverscale(x)
class(BraunBlanquetReduce(x))

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