aber {rioja}

Abernethy Forest pollen data

Description

Pollen stratigraphic data from Abernethy Forest, Scotland, spanning approximately 5500 - 12100 BP (from Birks & Mathews 1978). The data are a list with the following named components: spec Data are percentages of 36 dryland pollen taxa in 49 samples, (ages) core depths and ages for the 49 stratigraphic levels, and (names) codes and full names for the 36 taxa.

Usage

  data(aber)

Source

Birks, HH & Mathews, RW (1978). Studies in the vegetational history of Scotland V. Late Devensian and early Flandrian macrofossil stratigraphy at Abernethy Forest, Invernessshire. New Phytologist 80, 455-84.

Examples

data(aber)
strat.plot(aber$spec, scale.percent=TRUE, y.rev=TRUE)