paramecium {assist}

Growth of paramecium caudatum population

Description

The 'paramecium' data frame has 25 rows and 2 columns of data from an experiment that grow paramecium caudatum

Usage

data(paramecium)

Format

The data frame contains the following columns:

day a numeric vector of days since the start of the experiment

density a numeric vector of mean number of individuals in 0.5 ml of medium of four different cultures started simultaneously

Source

Gause, G.F. (1934). The Struggle for Existence. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins.

references

Neal, D. (2004). Introduction to Population Biology. Cambridge University Press.