sppTraits {datana}

Contains information of functional traits of species.

Description

Dataset contains 48 observations about about functional trait values for each of the 48 study species, including 23 evergreen and 25 deciduous.

Usage

data(sppTraits)

Format

Contains 17 variables, as follows:

sp

Abbreviated name of specie.

sp.name

Name of specie.

family

Family of specie.

genus

Genus of specie.

phyl

Type of phylogeny.

l.hab

Type of leaf habit.

leaf

Type of leaf.

lt

.

lma

Leaf mass area.

amass

Photosynthetic capacity per unit leaf mass.

n.mass

Leaf N content per unit mass.

pmass

Leaf P content per unit mass.

l.lifespan

Leaf life span.

l.length

Leaf length.

sem

Seed mass.

wd

Wood density.

max.h

Maximum height.

Source

The data were provided from DRYAD repository

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(sppTraits)    
head(sppTraits)