lakes {alr4}

Lake zooplankton diversity

Description

These data give the number of known crustacean zooplankton species for 69 world lakes. Also included are a number of characteristics of each lake. There are missing values.

Format

This data frame uses lake name as row label and contains the following columns:

Species

Number of zooplankton species

MaxDepth

Maximum lake depth, m

MeanDepth

Mean lake depth, m

Cond

Specific conductance, micro Siemans

Elev

Elevation, m

Lat

N latitude, degrees

Long

W longitude, degrees

Dist

distance to nearest lake, km

NLakes

number of lakes within 20 km

Photo

Rate of photosynthesis, mostly by the 14C method

Area

Lake area, in hectares

Source

Dodson, S. (1992), Predicting curstacean zooplankton species richness, Limnology and Oceanography, 37, 848–856.

References

Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.

Examples

head(lakes)