index.Rmd

--- 
title: "Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Temperate Forest Dynamics Plot"
author: "Erika Gonzalez-Akre, Alyssa Terrell, William McShea, Ian McGregor, Caroline Kittle, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: html_document
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
documentclass: book
bibliography: [book.bibtex, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
link-as-notes: true
description: "An overview of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's research plot."
url: https://github.com/SCBI-ForestGEO/SCBI-Plot-Book
---
# Preface {-}
This is our first online release for the *SCBI ForestGEO Large Forest Dynamics Plot*, a preliminary version of an eventual printed release.  

Our goal is to present basic ecological and botanical data, tree distribution maps, and growth and mortality data on all woody species measured in the 5-year surveys in our 25.6 ha plot.

![ ](maps_figures_tables/ch_1_intro/green.jpg)

This book was fuly written in R Markdown, using RStudio as text editor and the bookdown package [@xie_bookdown:_2016]. The source code is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/SCBI-ForestGEO/SCBI-Plot-Book. 





```{r include=FALSE}
# automatically create a bib database for R packages
knitr::write_bib(c(
  .packages(), 'bookdown', 'knitr', 'rmarkdown'
), 'packages.bib')
```