| AfricanRivers {FSAdata} | R Documentation |
Characteristics of a sample of West African rivers.
Description
Characteristics of a sample of West African rivers.
Format
A data frame of 39 observations on the following 6 variables:
- river
name of the river.
- richness
fish species richness.
- surface
surface area in
km^2.- disch
mean annual discharge in
\frac{m^3}{s}.- vegdiv
terrestrial vegetation diversity (Shannon's diversity index of vegetation in drainage).
- forperc
percentage of drainage area covered by lowland rain forest.
Topic(s)
Other
Source
From Table 1 in Hugueny, B. 1989. West African rivers as biogeographic islands: species richness of fish communities. Oecologia 79:236-243. CSV file
Examples
data(AfricanRivers)
str(AfricanRivers)
head(AfricanRivers)
[Package FSAdata version 0.4.1 Index]