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get_veg_from_NPS_PLOTS_db

Retrieve Vegetation Data from an NPS PLOTS Database

Description

Used to extract species, stratum, and cover vegetation data from a backend NPS PLOTS Database. Currently works for any Microsoft Access database with an .mdb file format.

Usage

get_veg_from_NPS_PLOTS_db(dsn)

Arguments

dsn

file path to the NPS PLOTS access database on your system.

Value

A data.frame with vegetation data in a long format with linkage to NRCS soil pedon data via the site_id key field.

Note

This function currently only works on Windows.

Author(s)

Jay M. Skovlin

soilDB

Soil Database Interface

v2.6.1

GPL (>= 3)

Authors

Dylan Beaudette [aut], Jay Skovlin [aut], Stephen Roecker [aut], Andrew Brown [aut, cre]

Initial release

2021-04-7