Example data set from the Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks Soil Survey conducted by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (Soil Survey Area 792). All data is obtained from the National Soils Information System (NASIS) database.
Source:R/SEKI_NP_veg.R
SEKI_NP_veg.RdExample data set from the Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks Soil Survey conducted by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (Soil Survey Area 792). All data is obtained from the National Soils Information System (NASIS) database.
Usage
data(SEKI_NP_Veg)Format
A data frame with 17444 rows and 44 variables:
- siteiid
Primary key for Site table record
- usiteid
Alpha-numeric code for Site
- siteobsiid
Primary key for Site Observation table record
- vegplotid
Alpha-numeric code for Vegetation Plot, often matching User Site ID
- vegplotiid
Primary key for Vegetation Plot table record
- primarydatacollector
Primary data collector for vegetation data
- vegdataorigin
Origin of vegetation data (e.g., directly entered, imported, converted from other vegetation database)
- ecositeid
Foreign key for Ecological Site in the Site Ecological Site History table
- ecositenm
Name of Ecological Site
- ecostateid
Foreign key for Ecological Site State in the Site Ecological Site History table
- ecostatename
Name of Ecological Site State
- commphaseid
Foreign key for Ecological Site Community Phase in the Site Ecological Site History table
- commphasename
Name of Ecological Site Community Phase
- cancovtotalpct
The estimated percent of the ground that is shaded by vegetation canopy at midday.
- cancovtotalclass
The estimated percent of the ground that is shaded by vegetation canopy at midday, expressed as a class.
- overstorycancontotalpct
The canopy cover percent of all species in the overstory stratum.
- overstorycancovtotalclass
The canopy cover percent of all species in the overstory stratum, expressed as a class.
- plantsym
Foreign key for Plant Symbol in the Plant table
- plantsciname
The full genus and species name as listed in The PLANTS Database, USDA-NRCS, National Plant Data Center.
- plantnatvernm
The most generally accepted common name of a plant.
- akstratumcoverclasspct
The Alaska stratum cover class cover in percent.
- speciescancovpct
The estimated canopy cover percent of a species.
- speciescomppct
The percentage of a particular species in the plant, including tree, community within the plot.
- speciestraceamtflag
A yes/no indicator that a 'trace' amount of a species exists. A 'trace' is defined as 'less than a measureable amount'.
- vegetationstratalevel
Identifies which strata or level of the vegetation canopy the particular referenced plant is a part of.
- akstratumcoverclass
General life form and horizontal layer (cover class) added to accommodate the STRATUMcv class attribute in AK SITE.
- plantheightcllowerlimit
The lower height limit of the plant height class being described.
- plantheightclupperlimit
The upper height limit of the plant height class being described.
- planttypegroup
The designation of a plant type group being inventoried by lifeform.
- horizdatnm
Datum Name.
- utmzone
UTM Zone.
- utmeasting
UTM Easting.
- utmnorthing
UTM Northing.
- latdegrees
Latitude degrees.
- latminutes
Latitude minutes.
- latseconds
Latitude seconds.
- latdir
Latitude position north or south of the equator.
- longdegrees
Longitude degrees.
- longminutes
Longitude minutes.
- longseconds
Longitude seconds.
- longdir
Longitude east or west of Greenwich.
- latstDD
Standardized latitude value in decimal degrees, in geographic coordinate system, WGS84 datum..
- longstDD
Standardized longitude value in decimal degrees, in geographic coordinate system, WGS84 datum.