bird.spec.coarse {zetadiv}

Australia Bird Atlas Species Occurrence Dataset at Coarse Scale over South-East Australia

Description

Inventory of bird species occurrence in 123, 100 x 100 km sites.

Usage

data(bird.spec.coarse)

Format

A data frame with 123 rows (sites) and 193 columns (xy coordinates and species).

Details

• x: x-position in meters in UTM 53 South projection

• y: y-position in meters in UTM 53 South projection

• columns 3-193: bird species occurrence

The original bird occurrence data were arranged into a continuous grid covering South-East Australia. Only cells whose richness was within 10 percents of real estimated richness are included here, so that the data corresponds to presence-absence data.

Location: Australia – 51° 27' 2.27" S, 135° 21' 35.19" E

Data owner: BirdLife Australia

References

Barrett, G., Silcocks, A., Barry, S., Cunningham, R. & Poulter, R. (2003) The new atlas of Australian birds. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Melbourne, 1-824.