Specific leaf area and leaf nitrogen content of Cecropia and Eschweilera

Computational methods
Serrapilheira/ICTP-SAIFR Training Program in Quantitative Biology and Ecology 2022
Project
Author: Julia Rossi Mora
August 2022
This is my project of the Computational Methods course, done under supervision of Andrea Sánchez-Tapia and Sara Mortara. This course is part of the Serrapilheira/ICTP-SAIFR Training Program in Quantitative Biology and Ecology 2022.

Project structure

project leaf/
     ├── docs/
     ├── figs/
     ├── R/
     └── README.md

docs directory contains RMarkdown, the report in PDF, .bib file with references and journal-of-ecology.csl.
figs directory contains the figures.
R directory contains the scripts.
README.md is exactly this file, wich gives a brief and general ideia of the project.

Dataset

Data analysis was done in RStudio. The data used in this project is from the package BIEN (Botanical Information and Ecology Network). Package maps was used to generate the base world map, in order to plot the points of occurences of Cecropia and Eschweilera.