gause_1934_book_f22 {gauseR}R Documentation

Paramecium competition experiment

Description

A dataset containing the abundances of two Paramecium species grown in monoculture and mixture. Note, is for the same experiment as gause_1934_science_f02_03, except that data were digitized separately, and therefore have small variations. These might be useful for estimating observation error in the data digitization process. "Volume" refers to a standardized index, meant to make the abundances of species comparable based on their relative sizes.

Usage

gause_1934_book_f22

Format

A data frame with 72 rows and 4 variables:

Paper

Paper from which data are drawn

Figure

Figure number in paper

Day

Day of experiment

Species1

Name of Species 1

Volume_Species1

Volume of Paramecium caudatum

Species2

Name of Species 2

Volume_Species2

Volume of Paramecium aurelia

Treatment

Treatments: Pa and Pc moncultures, or mixture

Source

Gause (1934) The Struggle for Existence. Dover Publications; Reprint edition.


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