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phenology: Phenology data for North American lilacs

Description

Data set from Schwartz, M.D. and J.M. Caprio, 2003, North American First Leaf and First Bloom Lilac Phenology Data, IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 2003-078. NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

Usage

data(phenology)

Arguments

Format

  • chinensis Syringa Chinensis Observation Stations SpatialPointsDataFrame - geographical projection

  • chinensis2 Syringa Chinensis Observation Stations SpatialPointsDataFrame - equal area projection

  • us_states States of US SpatialPolygonsDataFrame - geographical projection

  • us_states2 States of US SpatialPolygonsDataFrame - equal area projection

Examples

Run this code
# Read in the data
data(phenology)
# Split the plot in two
opar <- par(mfrow=c(2,1))
# Plot US states
plot(us_states2)
# Add Locations of observation stations
plot(chinensis2,add=TRUE,pch=16,col='red')
# Plot a histogram of year of observation next to this
hist(chinensis2$Year)
par(opar)

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