salinity {BNPdensity}

Salinity tolerance

Description

72-hour acute salinity tolerance (LC50 values) of riverine macro-invertebrates.

Format

A data frame with 108 observations on the following two variables:

left

A numeric vector.

right

A numeric vector.

Source

fitdistrplus R-package

References

Kefford, B.J., Nugegoda, D., Metzeling, L., Fields, E. 2006. Validating species sensitivity distributions using salinity tolerance of riverine macroinvertebrates in the southern Murray-darling Basin (Victoria, Australia). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 63, 1865-1877.

Examples

data(salinity)
hist(salinity$left)