sedgwickcover

Agoseris heterophylla and Trifolium albopurpureum among annual grasses in rocky serpentine grassland near site 745

Overview:

This is an R data package with vascular plant cover and density at 24 study sites located across the University of California Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Barbara County, California. These sites are the focus of demographic and community functional trait studies in the Kraft Lab at UCLA.

Sedgwick Map: A) Map of all 24 sites across the reserve–only the lower sites are labeled. Sites labeled 740 to 763. B) Inset showing locations of upper sites.

Installation

You can install sedgwickcover from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("akleinhesselink/sedgwickcover")

Usage

library(sedgwickenv) will load the following datasets:

• site_cover_2019: dataframe with average cover and total abundance of vascular plants at each of the 24 sites in the spring of 2019
• plot_cover_2019: dataframe with cover and density of vascular plants in 5 sampling plots at each of the 24 sites in the spring of 2019
• site_cover_2017: dataframe with average cover of vascular plants at each of the 24 sites in the spring of 2017
• plot_cover_2017: dataframe with cover of vascular plants in 5 sampling plots at each of the 24 sites in the spring of 2017
• microplot_cover_2017: dataframe with cover of vascular plants in 2 microplots nested within each fo the 5 sampling plots at each of the 24 sites in the spring of 2017