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data cleaning and curation for Art Cooper's 1957 thesis involving field cover data from UM's E.S. George Reserve

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ESGR Field Cover data (Art Cooper)

Repository Link: GitHub
Data Source: Relationships Between Plant Life-Forms and Microclimate, Cooper 1961

Excel files for plots 1-19 combined into 4 extracted tables: (copy/paste and some retyped by hand)

  • trees/shrubs DBH (tree_shrub_dbh.csv)
    • subplots 1-9
    • alive/dead
    • converted to long to combine live and dead tables
  • trees/shrubs reproduction/saplings (tree_shrub_reproduction.csv)
    • subplots 1-9
    • kept wide format
  • field cover (field_cover.csv)
    • trees/shrubs and herbs
    • bottom (plots 1-3) / middle (plots 4-6) / top (plots 7-9)
    • kept wide format
  • plot summary
    • created by hand using data extracted from data source paper

R notebook details all cleaning completed after initial extraction .
Metadata was extracted from the data source document.

Additional attachments:

  • code.zip - code for data cleaning
  • raw.zip - raw Excel data and extracted tables (described above)
  • photos.zip - plot photos taken by Art Cooper, 1957

Versions:

edi.933.1 - initial release

  • AKP 8/6/21
  • to do:
    • add locations for plots 18 and 19
    • updated locations for all plots
    • add pictures taken of plots in 2021