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Habitat Configuration data from seaweed experiment
Description
Data from a study of habitat configuration, specifically, does density of invertebrate epifauna on seaweed vary across sites with different levels of isolation from each other.
Usage
data(seaweed)
Format
A dataframe containing:
- Size
A character vector describing size of experimental plots as "SMALL" or "LARGE"
- Dist
Distance of isolation – 0, 2 or 10 metres from other algal beds
- Time
Sampling time - either 5 or 10 weeks from the start of the experiment.
- Rep
The replicate number (1 to 5).
- Wmass
Wet mass of the algal bed for that plot.
- Total
Total invertebrate density in the plot, calculated as nuber of individuals divided by
Wmass.
Other variables in the dataset give invertebrate counts separately for different taxa.
References
Roberts, D. A. & Poore, A. G. (2006). Habitat configuration affects colonisation of epifauna in a marine algal bed. Biological Conservation 127, 18-26.
Examples
data(seaweed)
boxplot(Total~Dist, data=seaweed)