/BBNP-transects

Data from Ecological Strategies of Plants Big Bend field trips

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BBNP-transects

Data from a set of six permanent locations along an elevational transect in Big Bend National Park. Data collected by students in BIOL 3405, Ecological Strategies of Plants.

This repo also includes data and code from Waring and Schwilk 2014

Waring, EF and D.W. Schwilk. 2014. Plant dieback under exceptional drought driven by elevation, not by plant traits, in Big Bend National Park, Texas USA PeerJ, 2:e477. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.477

Below are the links for the data and associated metadata as well as R code used in analysis and figure making

Data and Metadata

Metadata on how and where data were collected: dataCollection.metadata.md

Species names and occurrences

Species measured in the study: species.csv

Transect data

  • Transect data: data/Trans.XXXX.csv

Leaf trait data, 2010: traits.csv

Code for analyses, tables and figures

Data shaping

  • Read and shape data: dataShape.R
  • Statistical analyses: stats.R
  • Figures: figureCode.R