Welcome to the Santee Long-Term Fire Experiment!
The objective of this project is to determine what drives plant cover and species richness in the Santee Fire Plots, the location of a long-term study on the effects of different prescribed fire regimes within the plots.
The codebase for this project is entirely in R.
The scripts are divided into three types of plants: herbs, shrubs, and subcanopy. Data should be read in via .CSV.
The scipts use RDA to explore what environmental or fire treatment factors influence the plant type cover.
The RDAs are made such that one uses only burn data, one uses only environmental data, and the last one using all selected
environmental data and burn data as covariables. The scripts also allow the user to examine species richness by site, and
model the predictors of species richness within the Santee Fire Plots.
I'd like to thank Daniel McGlinn for the inspiration for the project and all of the much-needed advice along the way, as well as Anne Cubetta for providing data for the project.