Get Vegetation Data from an NPS PLOTS Database

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

Jay M. Skovlin