Galapagos Islands Vegetation Responses to Tourism and Agriculture Using Leaf Area Index

Replication data for a study measuring vegetation responses to tourism and agricultural activity in the Galapagos Islands using Leaf Area Index (LAI). The package includes GIS methodologies implemented in R and Python and econometric estimations performed in STATA. It was authored by Julio Tinoco and is hosted on the Harvard Dataverse platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling vegetation health based on Leaf Area Index (LAI) data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing the spatial correlation between tourism activity and vegetation changes using GIS methodologies
• Conducting econometric analysis on the impact of agricultural expansion on island ecosystems
• Replicating or extending the study's findings using the provided R, Python, and STATA code

Strengths

• Replication package includes code for GIS analysis in R and Python, facilitating reproducibility.
• Dataset is associated with a specific, peer-reviewed study on a well-defined ecological topic.
• Hosted on the Harvard Dataverse platform, which suggests a degree of institutional curation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description is brief and does not detail the specific variables or spatial/temporal resolution of the underlying data.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely derived from satellite or aerial remote sensing for Leaf Area Index, combined with tourism and agricultural activity data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 20:26:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Galapagos Islands