Data Manipulation Forest Ecology FOR 212

Importance Value RD+RF+Rdo RD=Sort by species, keeping track of those with the species present RF=use “count” to find amount of stems for species A divide by total of all stems Rdo= Use “sum” of basal area per species A divided by basal area for all species Add these three variable to get importance value for each species

Descriptive Data Cover type, aspect class and slope position can all be described as a percentage. i.e. Number of plots with cover type 28 (4)/ all plots (11) = .36

Descriptive Data Using Chart Wizard these percentages can be presented as a pie chart Steps include: “Sort by” function (i.e.cover type), 2. Get “count” by amount of entries per cover type (data -sub-total), 3. Divide this count by 11 (total number of plots), 4. Highlight these values and select “Chart Wizard” 5. Enter title, legend features and percentages

Descriptive Data Slope percent and basal area/acre are simple averages presented on a tract basis Steps include: Select cell just under column in question, select the function key, scroll through to AVERAGE, confirm data cells and hit enter.

Diameter Distribution Use tree data to plot diameters according to 1 inch classes. Format cells so that they are rounded into a 1 inch class Get a count of cells, position count alongside standard classes Develop chart from this count

Species Diversity Use sort and count to get total number of species A, divided by sum total of all species Use “LN” in function bar to perform Shannon-Weiner calculation Probably easiest to copy all 11 plots to a separate table an manipulate data that way Species richness can be determined by getting a count of the different species present