Clearcuts dataset

Biomass Change in Rainforests near Clearcuts

Biomass change in 36 Amazonian rainforests following clearcuts ranging from 50 m to several kilometers. data

Format

A data frame with 36 observations of one variable.

• biomass.change:

Source

Laurance, W.F., S.G. Laurance, L.V. Ferreira, J.M. Rankin-de Merona, C. Gascon, T.E. Lovejoy. 1997. Biomass collapse in Amazonian forest fragments. Science 278: 1117-1118.

Examples

str(Clearcuts)
histogram(~biomass.change, Clearcuts)

References

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/278/5340/1117