allometry {NitrogenUptake2016}

Data: Stem masses and heights for plants collected from Colt State Park, Rhode Island, USA, during summer 2016

Description

A dataframe of masses and heights of stems of Spartina alterniflora and Distichlis spicata. Samples were collected from Colt State Park, Bristol, RI, USA, during May-July 2016. Column descriptions:

Usage

allometry

Format

A dataframe with 170 observations of 6 variables:

site

Study location (Colt State Park, RI)

samplingDate

Sampling dates

status

Indicates whether plant was live or dead

height_cm

Stem height, in centimeters, from the sediment surface to the tip of the longest leaf

sample

Biomass, grams

spp

Species (SPAL or DISP)

References

Hill, T.D., N.R. Sommer, C.R. Kanaskie, E.A. Santos, A.J. Oczkowski. 2018. Data and source code from: Nitrogen uptake and allocation estimates for Spartina alterniflora and Distichlis spicata. Data In Brief. 21: 466-472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.09.133.

Hill, T.D., N.R. Sommer, C.R. Kanaskie, E.A. Santos, A.J. Oczkowski. 2018. Nitrogen uptake and allocation estimates for Spartina alterniflora and Distichlis spicata. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 507: 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2018.07.006.

Examples

### export to .csv:
write.csv(allometry, file = file.path(tempdir(), "allometry.csv"))