Environmental data for South Africa's Cap Floristic Region

Data include environmental variables for 36909 one minute by one minute grid cells on the whole South Africa's Cap Floristic Region.

Format

cfr.env is a data frame with 36909 observations (cells) on the following six environmental variables.

lon

longitude

lat

latitude

min07

minimum temperature of the coldest month (July)

smdwin

winter soil moisture days

fert3

moderately high fertility (percent of grid cell)

ph1

acidic soil (percent of grid cell)

text1

fine soil texture (percent of grid cell)

text2

moderately fine soil texture (percent of grid cell)

Source

Cory Merow's personal data

References

Latimer, A. M.; Wu, S. S.; Gelfand, A. E. and Silander, J. A. (2006) Building statistical models to analyze species distributions. Ecological Applications, 16, 33-50.