Major landcover classes of Western Mexico

A simplified data set of landcover types (for global usage) from EarthEnv. Tuanmu, M.-N. and W. Jetz. 2014. A global 1-km consensus land-cover product for biodiversity and ecosystem modeling. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23(9): 1031-1045.

Usage

landcover

Format

sf/tibble/dataframe, with a handful of variables briefly describing each locality.

class

Name of the class, slightly modified in several instances.

geometry

A simplified polygon geometry.

Examples

data(landcover)

library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
 geom_sf(data = landcover, aes(fill = class)) +
 theme_minimal()