ecospat.testData {ecospat}

Test Data For The Ecospat package

Description

Data frame that contains vegetation plots data: presence records of 50 species, a set of environmental variables (topo-climatic) and SDM predictions for some species in the Western Swiss Alps (Canton de Vaud, Switzerland).

Usage

data("ecospat.testData")

Format

A data frame with 300 observations on the following 96 variables.

numplots

Number of the vegetation plot.

long

Longitude, in Swiss plane coordinate system of the vegetation plot.

lat

Latitude, in Swiss plane coordinate system of the vegetation plot.

ddeg

Growing degree days (with a 0 degrees Celsius threshold).

mind

Moisture index over the growing season (average values for June to August in mm day-1).

srad

The annual sum of radiation (in kJ m-2 year-1).

slp

Slope (in degrees) calculated from the DEM25.

topo

Topographic position (an integrated and unitless measure of topographic exposure.

Achillea_atrata

Achillea_millefolium

Acinos_alpinus

Adenostyles_glabra

Aposeris_foetida

Arnica_montana

Aster_bellidiastrum

Bartsia_alpina

Bellis_perennis

Campanula_rotundifolia

Centaurea_montana

Cerastium_latifolium

Cruciata_laevipes

Doronicum_grandiflorum

Galium_album

Galium_anisophyllon

Galium_megalospermum

Gentiana_bavarica

Gentiana_lutea

Gentiana_purpurea

Gentiana_verna

Globularia_cordifolia

Globularia_nudicaulis

Gypsophila_repens

Hieracium_lactucella

Homogyne_alpina

Hypochaeris_radicata

Leontodon_autumnalis

Leontodon_helveticus

Myosotis_alpestris

Myosotis_arvensis

Phyteuma_orbiculare

Phyteuma_spicatum

Plantago_alpina

Plantago_lanceolata

Polygonum_bistorta

Polygonum_viviparum

Prunella_grandiflora

Rhinanthus_alectorolophus

Rumex_acetosa

Rumex_crispus

Vaccinium_gaultherioides

Veronica_alpina

Veronica_aphylla

Agrostis_capillaris

Bromus_erectus_sstr

Campanula_scheuchzeri

Carex_sempervirens

Cynosurus_cristatus

Dactylis_glomerata

Daucus_carota

Festuca_pratensis_sl

Geranium_sylvaticum

Leontodon_hispidus_sl

Potentilla_erecta

Pritzelago_alpina_sstr

Prunella_vulgaris

Ranunculus_acris_sl

Saxifraga_oppositifolia

Soldanella_alpina

Taraxacum_officinale_aggr

Trifolium_repens_sstr

Veronica_chamaedrys

Parnassia_palustris

glm_Agrostis_capillaris

GLM model for the species Agrostis_capillaris.

glm_Leontodon_hispidus_sl

GLM model for the species Leontodon_hispidus_sl.

glm_Dactylis_glomerata

GLM model for the species Dactylis_glomerata.

glm_Trifolium_repens_sstr

GLM model for the species Trifolium_repens_sstr.

glm_Geranium_sylvaticum

GLM model for the species Geranium_sylvaticum.

glm_Ranunculus_acris_sl

GLM model for the species Ranunculus_acris_sl.

glm_Prunella_vulgaris

GLM model for the species Prunella_vulgaris.

glm_Veronica_chamaedrys

GLM model for the species Veronica_chamaedrys.

glm_Taraxacum_officinale_aggr

GLM model for the species Taraxacum_officinale_aggr.

glm_Plantago_lanceolata

GLM model for the species Plantago_lanceolata.

glm_Potentilla_erecta

GLM model for the species Potentilla_erecta.

glm_Carex_sempervirens

GLM model for the species Carex_sempervirens.

glm_Soldanella_alpina

GLM model for the species Soldanella_alpina.

glm_Cynosurus_cristatus

GLM model for the species Cynosurus_cristatus.

glm_Campanula_scheuchzeri

GLM model for the species Campanula_scheuchzeri.

glm_Festuca_pratensis_sl

GLM model for the species Festuca_pratensis_sl.

gbm_Bromus_erectus_sstr

GBM model for the species Bromus_erectus_sstr.

glm_Saxifraga_oppositifolia

GLM model for the species Saxifraga_oppositifolia.

glm_Daucus_carota

GLM model for the species Daucus_carota.

glm_Pritzelago_alpina_sstr

GLM model for the species Pritzelago_alpina_sstr.

glm_Bromus_erectus_sstr

GLM model for the species Bromus_erectus_sstr.

gbm_Saxifraga_oppositifolia

GBM model for the species Saxifraga_oppositifolia.

gbm_Daucus_carota

GBM model for the species Daucus_carota.

gbm_Pritzelago_alpina_sstr

GBM model for the species Pritzelago_alpina_sstr.

Details

The study area is the Western Swiss Alps of Canton de Vaud, Switzerland.

Five topo-climatic explanatory variables to calibrate the SDMs: growing degree days (with a 0 degrees Celsius threshold); moisture index over the growing season (average values for June to August in mm day-1); slope (in degrees); topographic position (an integrated and unitless measure of topographic exposure; Zimmermann et al., 2007); and the annual sum of radiation (in kJ m-2 year-1). The spatial resolution of the predictor is 25 m x 25 m so that the models could capture most of the small-scale variations of the climatic factors in the mountainous areas.

Two modelling techniques were used to produce the SDMs: generalized linear models (GLM; McCullagh & Nelder, 1989; R library 'glm') and generalized boosted models (GBM; Friedman, 2001; R library 'gbm'). The SDMs correpond to 20 species: Agrostis_capillaris, Leontodon_hispidus_sl, Dactylis_glomerata, Trifolium_repens_sstr, Geranium_sylvaticum, Ranunculus_acris_sl, Prunella_vulgaris, Veronica_chamaedrys, Taraxacum_officinale_aggr, Plantago_lanceolata, Potentilla_erecta, Carex_sempervirens, Soldanella_alpina, Cynosurus_cristatus, Campanula_scheuchzeri, Festuca_pratensis_sl, Daucus_carota, Pritzelago_alpina_sstr, Bromus_erectus_sstr and Saxifraga_oppositifolia.

Author(s)

Antoine Guisan [e-mail], Anne Dubuis [e-mail] and Valeria Di Cola [e-mail]

References

Guisan, A. 1997. Distribution de taxons vegetaux dans un environnement alpin: Application de modelisations statistiques dans un systeme d'information geographique. PhD Thesis, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Guisan, A., J.P. Theurillat. and F. Kienast. 1998. Predicting the potential distribution of plant species in an alpine environment. Journal of Vegetation Science, 9, 65-74.

Guisan, A. and J.P. Theurillat. 2000. Assessing alpine plant vulnerability to climate change: A modeling perspective. Integrated Assessment, 1, 307-320.

Guisan, A. and J.P. Theurillat. 2000. Equilibrium modeling of alpine plant distribution and climate change : How far can we go? Phytocoenologia, 30(3-4), 353-384.

Dubuis A., J. Pottier, V. Rion, L. Pellissier, J.P. Theurillat and A. Guisan. 2011. Predicting spatial patterns of plant species richness: A comparison of direct macroecological and species stacking approaches. Diversity and Distributions, 17, 1122-1131.

Zimmermann, N.E., T.C. Edwards, G.G Moisen, T.S. Frescino and J.A. Blackard. 2007. Remote sensing-based predictors improve distribution models of rare, early successional and broadleaf tree species in Utah. Journal of Applied Ecology 44, 1057-1067.

Examples

data(ecospat.testData)
str(ecospat.testData)
dim(ecospat.testData)
names(ecospat.testData)