Vascular Plant Species Cover for the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, USA

Description

Percent cover (in codes) for 368 vascular plants on 150 375m^2 sample plots stratified across the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, USA. Plots were chosen at random from a larger dataset.

Usage

data(shoshveg)

Format

A data.frame with sample plots as rows and species as columns. Sample plots match the ‘shoshsite’ dataset.

The cover of all vascular plant species was recorded according to the following scale: present but < 1% = 0.1, 1-5% = 0.5, 5-15% = 1.0, 15-25% = 2.0, 25-35% = 3.0, 35-45% = 4.0, 45-55% = 5.0, 55-65% = 6.0, 65=75% = 7.0, 75-85% = 8.0. No species exhibited greater than 80% cover in the data set.

Note

The data were derived from a multi-year effort by numerous scientists and field technicians. The project was directed by Kent Houston, Soil Scientist and Ecologist, Shoshone National Forest

Source

Roberts, D.W. 2008. Statistical Analysis of Multidimensional Fuzzy Set Ordinations. Ecology 89:1246-1260.

Results