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Ant species abundance from Arnan et el. (2011)
Description
Abundance of 46 ant species from 99 sites sampled in the Nothern Territory (Australia). This dataset corresponds to Plot A data in Arnan et al. (2011).
Usage
data(antsA)
Format
A data frame with 99 rows (sites) and 46 variables (species abundances)
Source
Calatayud, J., Andivia, E., Escudero, A., Melian, C. J., Bernardo-Madrid, R., Stoffel, M., ... , Madrigal-Gonzalez, J.(2019) Positive associations among rare species and their persistence in ecological assemblages. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4: 40-45. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9906092.
References
Arnan, X., Gaucherel, C., Andersen, A. N. (2011) Dominance and species co-occurrence in highly diverse ant communities: a test of the interstitial hypothesis and discovery of a three-tiered competition cascade. Oecologia, 166: 783-794. doi: 10.1007/s00442-011-1919-y.
Examples
data(antsA)
FQAnts <- fuzzyq(antsA, sorting = TRUE)