R code and data for the classification of gully and bench rainforest communities in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, NSW, Australia

This repository contains the R code and underlying field survey data used to classify two new rainforest community types — Gully rainforest and Bench rainforest — in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area (GBMWHA), New South Wales, Australia, via multivariate ordination (nMDS) and PERMANOVA/PERMDISP analyses against existing regional Plant Community Types (PCTs). This dataset and code accompany the article: Bendall E, Wong V, Bell S, Gallagher R. Identification of distinctive new rainforest communities in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, Australia. Vegetation Classification and Survey. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.186732. Code in this repository is licensed CC-BY 4.0 on GitHub; this Zenodo deposit is released under CC0. Claude (Anthropic) assisted with R code auditing and debugging; all analyses and outputs were verified by the authors.