ecospat (version 3.3)

ecospat.testEnvRaster: Test Environmental Rasters for The Ecospat package

Description

A stack of 5 topoclimatic rasters at 250m resolution for the Western Swiss Alps. It includes "ddeg0" (growing degree-days above 0C), "mind68" (moisture index for month June to August), "srad68" (solar radiation for month June to August), "slope25" (average of slopes at 25m resolution) and "topos25" (average of topographic positions at 25m resolution)

Format

ecospat.testEnvRaster is a RasterBrick encapsulated in a .Rdata that contains the following rasters:

[1] "ddeg0" [2] "mind68" [3] "srad68" [4] "slope25" [5] "topos25"

Author

Olivier Broennimann

References

Zimmermann, N.E., F. Kienast. 2009. Predictive mapping of alpine grasslands in Switzerland: Species versus community approach. Journal of Vegetation Science, 10, 469-482.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
fpath <- system.file("extdata", "ecospat.testEnvRaster.RData", package="ecospat")
load(fpath)
plot(env)
}