Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Temperate Forest Dynamics Plot

Erika Gonzalez-Akre, Alyssa Terrell, William McShea, Ian McGregor, Caroline Kittle, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira

2019-11-22

Preface

This is our first online release for the SCBI ForestGEO Large Forest Dynamics Plot, a preliminary version of an eventual printed release.

Our goal is to present basic ecological and botanical data, tree distribution maps, and growth and mortality data on all woody species measured in the 5-year surveys in our 25.6 ha plot.

This book was fuly written in R Markdown, using RStudio as text editor and the bookdown package (Xie 2016). The source code is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/SCBI-ForestGEO/SCBI-Plot-Book.

References

Xie, Yihui. 2016. Bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown. Chapman and Hall/CRC. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bookdown/citation.html.