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plantTraits: Plant traits for 136 species

Description

This dataset, from the library cluster, constitutes a description of 136 plant species according to biological attributes (morphological or reproductive).

Usage

data(plantTraits)

Arguments

source

Vallet, Jeanne (2005) Structuration de communautes vegetales et analyse comparative de traits biologiques le long d'un gradient d'urbanisation. Memoire de Master 2 'Ecologie-Biodiversite-Evolution'; Universite Paris Sud XI, 30p.+ annexes (in french). Maechler, M., Rousseeuw, P., Struyf, A., Hubert, M. (2005). Cluster Analysis Basics and Extensions; unpublished.

Details

Most of factor attributes are not disjunctive. For example, a plant can be usually pollinated by insects but sometimes self-pollination can occur.