demograph {datana}R Documentation

Contains information of demography of species.

Description

Dataset contains 61 observations about life histories values for each species and site, as obtained from the parameterization carried out in studies that used the model SORTIE

Usage

data(demograph)

Format

Contains 15 variables, as follows:

species

Name specie.

site

Name of site of study.

country

Name of country.

site.num

Code of site.

code

Species code.

genus

Species genus.

spp

Abbreviated name of the species.

family

Family of the species.

phyl

Type of phylogeny: Angiosperm/Gymnosperm

l.hab

Leaf habit: Deciduous/Evergreen

l.type

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leaf

Combination of phylogeny and leaf habit: evergreen gymnosperms; deciduous angiosperms and evergreen angiosperms.

growth.l

Growth at full light, in years. Defined as the time needed for a sapling with DBH= 1cm to become an adult (DBH=7.5 cm) when light = 100%.

growth.d

Growth in shade, in years. Defined as the time needed for a sapling with DBH= 1cm to become an adult (DBH=7.5 cm) when light = 1%

surv.d

Survival in shade, in %. Defined as the 5-year survivorship of a sapling with DBH = 1cm when light = 1%.

Source

The data were obtained from the DRYAD repository doi:10.5061/dryad.12b0h.

References

- Ameztegui A, Paquette A, Shipley B, Heym M, Messier C, Gravel D. 2016. Shade tolerance and the functional trait: demography relationship in temperate and boreal forests. Functional Ecology 31:821-830.

Examples

data(demograph)    
head(demograph) 

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