plantsHawaii {datana}R Documentation

Maximum plant size in the Hawaiian archipelago.

Description

Maximum plant size of 58 tree, shrub and tree fern species that occur in 530 forest plots across the Hawaiian archipelago.

Usage

data(plantsHawaii)

Format

Contains six variables, as follows:

scientific.name

Genus and epithet of each individual following The Plant List v. 1.1 (2013).

family

Family of each individual following The Plant List v. 1.1 (2013).

native.status

Categorical variable ('native', 'alien', 'uncertain') indicating alien status of each individual following Wagner et al. (2005).

n

Number of individuals used to estimate maximum plant size.

d.95

Maximum plant size, estimated as D950.1 (King et al. 2006).

d.max.3

Maximum plant size, estimated as Dmax3 (King et al. 2006).

Source

The data were obtained from the DRYAD repository at doi:10.5061/dryad.1kk02qr.

References

Craven D, Knight T, Barton K, Bialic-Murphy L, Cordell S, Giardina C, Gillespie T, Ostertag R, Sack L,Chase J. 2018. OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e28406.

Examples

data(plantsHawaii)    
head(plantsHawaii) 

[Package datana version 1.0.3 Index]