wdData {BIOMASS}

The global wood density database

Description

The global wood density database (Chave et al. 2009, Zanne et al. 2009).

Usage

data("wdData")

Format

A data frame with 16467 observations on the following 7 variables.

• family: a character vector indicating the family

• genus: a character vector indicating the genus

• species: a character vector indicating the species

• wd: a numeric vector of wood densities (g/cm^3)

• region: a character vector of regions (see getWoodDensity())

• referenceNumber: a numeric vector of reference numbers (bibliography)

• regionId: a character vector of region ids

Details

This dataset is used in the function getWoodDensity(), to estimate a taxon-average wood density value.

Source

Zanne et al. Global wood density database. Dryad. Identifier: http://datadryad.org/handle/10255/dryad.235 (2009).

References

Chave et al. (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology letters 12:4, 351-366.

Examples

data(wdData)
str(wdData)