baiTreelines {datana}R Documentation

Annual basal area increment for four tree species.

Description

The dataset contains 157 observations of the last ten years in 6-8 adult trees of different species at three elevations of altitudinal gradients sampled in four locations in Chile and two in Spain.

Usage

data(baiTreelines)

Format

Contains seven columns, as follows:

climate

Climate of each location, mediterranean and temperate.

site

Name of Location of study (termmas:Termas de Chillan , antillanca:Antillanca area within Puyehue National Park, castillo:Cerro Castillo Natural Reserve, farellones:Farellones in Central Chile, pyrenees: Sierra de Cutas area in Spanish Central Pyrenees,sierra:Sierra Nevada).

species

name species of study (lenga: Nothofagus pumilio, frangel: Kageneckia angustifolia, uncinata: Pinus uncinata, sylvestris: Pinus sylvestris).

elevation

Type of elevation. "Treeline", intermediate named as "inter", and closed or montane forest named as low.

tree

Id for tree.

bai

Value of annual basal area increment.

mean.bai

Mean of annual basal area increment.

Source

The data were obtained from the DRYAD repository at doi:10.5061/dryad.ks97h.

References

Piper F, Vinegla B, Linares J, Camarero J, Cavieres L, Fajardo A. 2016. Mediterranean and temperate treelines are controlled by different environmental drivers. Journal of of Ecology. 104: 691-702.

Examples

data(baiTreelines)    
head(baiTreelines) 

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