HCP {betaper}R Documentation

Tree counts in tropical montane forest fragments

Description

HCP has tree abundance data from 16 forest fragments located in the Highlands of Chiapas, southern Mexico. HCP.coords contains the geographical UTM coordinates for the 16 forest fragments' centroids.

Usage

data(HCP)
data(HCP.coords)	

Format

HCP is a data frame with 231 observations and 19 variables. The three first columns contain family, genus and specific species Latin names. Columns 4 to 19 have tree abundance data for the 16 forest fragments. HCP.coords is a data frame with two columns and 16 rows.

References

Cayuela, L., Golicher, D.J., Rey Benayas, J.M., Gonzalez-Espinosa, M. & Ramirez-Marcial, N. 2006. Fragmentation, disturbance and tree diversity conservation in tropical montane forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 1172-1181.

Examples

data(HCP)
data(HCP.coords)

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