and first two letter of species. When Although Plants nomenclature has were only changed for some identified code used species since the to genus in this code was first XX is project defined in 2001, we used as the have opted not to last two change the code, but letters in to report the current the code nomenclature instead. Sum of canopy area per species excluding 0-40 m2 dead plants. For Year m2 for (one for cover, density is the sum of Species cover, and column and 0-36 all trunks per cover or Numeric NA for each species, plus density for census for canopies with density year) density centroid problem that are considered rooted inside the plot. Seedlings This table summarizes the variables used in Seedling_counts.csv Variable Storage Missing Variable Definition code and Type code methods definition
code used in this project When Plants were only identified to genus XX is used as the last two letters in the code and first two letter of species. Although nomenclature has changed for some species since the code was first defined in 2001, we have opted not to change the code, but to report the current nomenclature instead. Year (one column for each census year) Species cover or density m2 for cover, and for density Numeric 0-40 m2 for cover, and 0-36 for density NA Sum of canopy area per species excluding dead plants. For density is the sum of all trunks per species, plus canopies with centroid problem that are considered rooted inside the plot. Seedlings This table summarizes the variables used in Seedling_counts.csv Variable Definition Storage Type Variable code and definition Missing code methods
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