ESGR Field Cover data (Art Cooper)

Repository Link: GitHub
Data Source: Relationships Between Plant Life-Forms and Microclimate, Cooper 1961

Excel files for plots 1-19 combined into 4 extracted tables: (copy/paste and some retyped by hand)

• trees/shrubs DBH (tree_shrub_dbh.csv)
  • subplots 1-9
  • alive/dead
  • converted to long to combine live and dead tables
• trees/shrubs reproduction/saplings (tree_shrub_reproduction.csv)
  • subplots 1-9
  • kept wide format
• field cover (field_cover.csv)
  • trees/shrubs and herbs
  • bottom (plots 1-3) / middle (plots 4-6) / top (plots 7-9)
  • kept wide format
• plot summary
  • created by hand using data extracted from data source paper

R notebook details all cleaning completed after initial extraction .
Metadata was extracted from the data source document.

Additional attachments:

• code.zip - code for data cleaning
• raw.zip - raw Excel data and extracted tables (described above)
• photos.zip - plot photos taken by Art Cooper, 1957

Versions:

edi.933.1 - initial release

• AKP 8/6/21
• to do:
  • add locations for plots 18 and 19
  • updated locations for all plots
  • add pictures taken of plots in 2021