caruso {untb}R Documentation

Dataset due to Caruso

Description

A dataframe in standard format due to Migliorini and Caruso presenting observations of oribatid mites.

Usage

data(caruso)

Format

Dataset caruso is a data frame with 194 observations on 5 variables. Each row corresponds to a species; the observations (rows) are the species abundances in each of 5 habitats.

Following Migliorini et al 2002, the habitats were:

Details

Oribatid mites are rather small and very interesting free living soil microarthropods. They have a huge species diversity with populations characterised by highly aggregated distributions over multiple spatial scales ranging from a few centimetres to hundreds of meters.

Within each habitat, several soil samples were collected (five randomly located replicates per each month: see the paper Migliorini et al. 2002). So, actually, that is a network of small samples that make a single large sample.

The five study areas of this data set belong to five habitats that are very typical of that Mediterranean region. These five areas also belong to a rather homogeneous biogeographical region (southern Tuscany). On the ground of what is known on the biology and community patterns of Oribatida, several a-priori hypotheses can be made on expected changes in the diversity of their assemblages and immigration rates respectively between and within the five areas. For instance, under the Neutral Model one might expect that the Beech forest should have the highest Theta and an immigration rate of about 1, while one might expect the opposite for the Biancana (a very arid habitat, a kind of gariga/garrigue with very patchy vegetation).

Note

Executing optimal.params.sloss(caruso) does not return useful output. The reason for this is unknown.

Source

Data kindly supplied by Tancredi Caruso

References

See Also

extractor

Examples

data(caruso)

summary(count(caruso[,1]))



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