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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)
[Package alr4 version 1.0.6 Index]