Tree cover data for South America

Tree cover, precipitation, temperature, and predicted precipitation data for a random set of 5000 locations in the South America.

Usage

treeCover

Format

`treeCover` A data frame with 5,000 rows and 6 columns:

x

Longitude in degrees

y

Latitude in degrees

treeCover

Percentage of tree cover in a 250m large pixel

precip

Mean yearly precipitation computed from 1981-2010 in millimeters

temp

Mean temperature computed from 1981-2010 in °C

precip2100

Predicted yearly precipitation for 2081-2100 based on RCP4.5 scenatio in millimeters

Source

treeCover

<https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD44B.061/>

precip, temp

<https://chelsa-climate.org/exchelsa-extended-bioclim/>

precip2100

Gutiérrez et al., 2021; Iturbide et al., 2021