Inventory of bird species occurrence in 123, 100 x 100 km sites.
data(bird.spec.coarse)
A data frame with 123 rows (sites) and 193 columns (xy coordinates and species).
x: x-position in meters in UTM 53 South projection
y: y-position in meters in UTM 53 South projection
columns 3-193: bird species occurrence
The original bird occurrence data were arranged into a continuous grid covering South-East Australia. Only cells whose richness was within 10 percents of real estimated richness are included here, so that the data corresponds to presence-absence data.
Location: Australia -- 51<U+00B0> 27' 2.27" S, 135<U+00B0> 21' 35.19" E
Data owner: BirdLife Australia
Barrett, G., Silcocks, A., Barry, S., Cunningham, R. & Poulter, R. (2003) The new atlas of Australian birds. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Melbourne, 1-824.