R: Site information and grazed vegetation data.

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## Site information and grazed vegetation data.

### Description

This data frame contains site location, landscape context and dominant plant species abundances for 25 of the plant species found in 50 grazed pastures in the northeastern United States. Elements are the mean values for canopy cover for ten 0.5 x 2 m quadrats.

### Usage

    data(graze)

### Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 25 variables.

`sitelocation`

  Site location along a geographic gradient.

`forestpct`

  Percentage forest cover within a 1-km radius.

`ACMI2`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`ANOD`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`ASSY`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`BRIN2`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`CIAR4`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`CIIN`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`CIVU`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`DAGL`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`ELRE4`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`GAMO`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`LOAR10`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`LOCO6`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`LOPE`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`OXST`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`PLMA2`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`POPR`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`PRVU`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`RAAC3`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`RUCR`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`SORU2`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`STGR`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`TAOF`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`TRPR2`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`TRRE3`

  Percentage canopy cover.

`VEOF2`

  Percentage canopy cover.

### Details

Site locations fall along a southwest-northeast transect through the northeastern United States. This is a synthetic gradient calculated from latitude and longitude. Forest landcover is taken from the USGS 1992 National Land Cover Dataset. All forest classes were combined, and the percentage within 1 km of the sample sites was calculated using a GIS.

### Author(s)

Sarah Goslee

### Source

Details of these data are available in Tracy and Sanderson (2000) and Goslee and Sanderson (2010). The 1992 NLCD data can be obtained from http://www.mrlc.gov/. Species codes are from http://plants.usda.gov (2010).

### References

Tracy, B.F. and M.A. Sanderson. 2000. Patterns of plant species richness in pasture lands of the northeast United States. Plant Ecology 149:169-180.

Goslee, S.C., Sanderson, M.A. 2010. Landscape Context and Plant Community Composition in Grazed Agricultural Systems. Landscape Ecology 25:1029-1039.

### Examples

    data(graze)

[Package ecodist version 2.0.1 Index]