fire {asbio}R Documentation

Fire data from Yellowstone National Park

Description

Fires from 1988 constituted the largest conflagration in the history of Yellowstone National Park. This dataframe lists burned areas for ten Yellowstone stream catchments (Robinson et al. 1994).

Usage

data(fire)

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 2 variables.

fire

Burn area in, in hectares^2.

stream

A factor with levels Blacktail Cache EF.Blacktail Fairy Hellroaring Iron.Springs Pebble Rose SF.Cache Twin

Source

Robinson, C. T., Minshall, G. W., and S. R. Rushforth (1994) The effects of the 1988 wildfires on diatom assemblages in the streams of Yellowstone National Park. Technical Report NPS/NRYELL/NRTR-93/XX.


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