Neighborhood data (from Latimer et al. 2006)

Data come from a small region including 476 one minute by one minute grid cells. This region is is a small corner of South Africa's Cape Floristic Region, and includes very high plant species diversity and a World Biosphere Reserve. The data frame can be used as an example for several functions in the hSDM package.

Format

neighbors.Latimer2006 is a vector of 3542 integers indicating the neighbors (adjacent cells) of each spatial cell. The vector is of the form c(neighbors of cell 1, neighbors of cell 2, ... , neighbors of the last cell).

Source

Latimer et al. (2006) Ecological Applications, Appendix B

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.