The classic pollen data set from Abernethy Forest in the Scottish
highlands, UK. The data originate from the work of Hilary Birks and
Rolf Mathewes (1978) and have been analysed in several texts on
quantitative numerical palaeoecology.
The data set consists of 36 pollen taxa from 49 levels, with two
additional variables; Age, the age of each sample, and
Depth the depth (in cm) below the surface of the peat sequence
from which the core was taken.
Usage
data(abernethy)
Arguments
Format
abernethy is a data frame with 49 samples on 36 species plus
sample Age and Depth (in cm).
References
Birks, H.H. and Mathewes, R.W. (1978) Studies in the vegetational
history of Scotland. New Phytologist80, 455-484.