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bird.env.coarse: South-East Australia Environmental Dataset at Coarse Scale

Description

Projected coordinates and environmental variables in 123, 100 x 100 km sites.

Usage

data(bird.env.coarse)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 123 rows (sites) and 9 columns (xy coordinates and environmental variables).

Details

The data set contains the following variables:

  • x: x-position in meters in UTM 53 South projection

  • y: y-position in meters in UTM 53 South projection

  • Natural: Proportion of area of conservation and natural environments

  • Irrigated: Proportion of area of production from irrigated agriculture and plantations

  • Water: Proportion of area of water features

  • Elevation: Elevation

  • ApP: Area per person

  • Temp: Temperature

  • Precip: Precipitation

Location: Australia -- 51<U+00B0> 27' 2.27" S, 135<U+00B0> 21' 35.19" E

Data owners: ABARES, Australian Bureau of Statistics,GEBCO, WorldClim

References

http://data.daff.gov.au/anrdl/metadata_files/pa_luav4g9abl07811a00.xml

http://www.gebco.net/

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1270.0.55.0072011?

http://www.worldclim.org/

Hijmans, R.J., Cameron, S.E., Parra, J.L., Jones, P.G. & Jarvis, A. (2005) Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International journal of climatology, 25, 1965-1978.