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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_book_1934_f22, 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_science_f02_03
Format
A data frame with 63 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) Experimental Analysis of Vito Volterra's Mathematical Theory of the Struggle for Existence. Science 79:16-17.