Describing Vegetation-Plots

Describing data sets and plant communities by taxonomic attributes.

Task

Import the data set sanmartin1998.rds into your R-Session and summary taxonomy and species attributes for each plot.

Describe different plant communities according to those statistics.

Do some descriptive statistics on the basis of taxonomic and environmental variables stored at object@header.

Here a suggested code to import and explore the content of the object:

releves <- readRDS("sanmartin1998.rds")
releves
releves <- relation2header(vegtable = releves,
    relation = "community_type")
summary(as.factor(releves$community_name))

Alternatives

You can use other distributed data sets or own data formatted to vegtable.

Trained Skills

• Understanding about data structure in vegtable objects.
• Overview of taxonomic attributes stored in taxlist objects.

Submitted Results

Virginia Palchetti
Lucrecia Lipoma