atlantic_small_mammal_abundance - Abundance of small mammals in the Atlantic Forest (ASMAF): a data set for analyzing tropical community patterns

Dataset used

• atlantic_small_mammal_abundance

Introduction

The atlantic_small_mammal_abundance dataset contains

Data exploration

Citations

Figueiredo et al. 2017. Abundance of small mammals in the Atlantic Forest (ASMAF): a data set for analyzing tropical community patterns. Ecology, 98(11), 2981-2981. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2005

How we processed the raw data

Download data from Ecology

# download
# download data from https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.2005

# unzip
unzip(zipfile = "data-raw/ecy2005-sup-0001-datas1.zip", exdir = "data-raw")

Data cleaning

# import sites
atlantic_small_mammal_abundance_sites <- readr::read_delim("data-raw/Localities.csv", delim = ";",
                locale = readr::locale(encoding = "latin1")) %>%
    janitor::clean_names() %>%
    dplyr::relocate(longitude, .before = latitude)

atlantic_small_mammal_abundance_species <- readr::read_delim("data-raw/Mammal_Communities.csv", delim = ";",
                                                     locale = readr::locale(encoding = "latin1")) %>%
    janitor::clean_names() %>%
    dplyr::select(1:4)

# join longer
atlantic_small_mammal_abundance <- atlantic_small_mammal_abundance_sites %>%
    dplyr::left_join(atlantic_small_mammal_abundance_species)