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Coverages of plants species in a plot in Southern Brazilian Grasslands
Description
Coverage class of each plant species recorded in one of the plots set in grassland in Southern Brazil ('Pampa') by Vieira & Overbeck (2020).
Usage
data(grasslands)
Format
A data-frame with one plant species per row, and three vectors:
- class
cover class as coded in the original data set.
- cover
interval of the cover class for each plant species. Cover is the proportion of the area of the plot covered by all individuals of each species
- upper
Upper limit of the cover class of each plant species
- mids
Mid-point of the cover class for each plant sepcies
Source
Vieira & Overbeck (2020) provide cover data for each individual species in
the whole set of eighty plots of 1 m2. The data frame grasslands
corresponds to data from plot 'CA8', which has the largest number of
species recorded among these plots.
References
Vieira, Mariana; Overbeck, Gerhard (2020). Small seed bank in grasslands and tree plantations in former grassland sites in the South Brazilian highlands [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n2z34tmsw