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Global Plants data
Description
Data inspired by a worldwide study of plant height and its association with climate and latitude (Moles et al. 2009). Height is recorded for one dominant plant at each of 178 sites, along with dozens of climatic variables extracted from BIOCLIM. Sites, climate data and species lists come from Moles et al. (2009) but height data are not actually field measurements, due to data unavailability. Instead height has been taken from species descriptions available on Google, accessed 7/1/21.
Usage
data(globalPlants)
Format
A dataframe containing a whole bunch of stuff, the main things being:
- height
Maximum plant height, in metres, taken from species descriptions on Google (where available)
- lat
latitude of the site this plant was found at
- temp
average daily maximum temperature
- rain
total annual precipitation
- rain.wetm
Rainfall in the wettest month
References
Moles et al. (2009) Global patterns in plant height. Journal of Ecology 97, 923-932.
Examples
data(globalPlants)
plot(height~lat,data=globalPlants)