sipoo {vegan}R Documentation

Birds in the Archipelago of Sipoo (Sibbo and BorgÄ)

Description

Land birds on islands covered by coniferous forest in the Sipoo Archipelago, southern Finland.

Usage

  data(sipoo)
  data(sipoo.map)

Format

The sipoo data frame contains data of occurrences of 50 land bird species on 18 islands in the Sipoo Archipelago (Simberloff & Martin, 1991, Appendix 3). The species are referred by 4+4 letter abbreviation of their Latin names (but using five letters in two species names to make these unique).

The sipoo.map data contains the geographic coordinates of the islands in the ETRS89-TM35FIN coordinate system (EPSG:3067) and the areas of islands in hectares.

Source

Simberloff, D. & Martin, J.-L. (1991). Nestedness of insular avifaunas: simple summary statistics masking complex species patterns. Ornis Fennica 68:178–192.

Examples

data(sipoo)
data(sipoo.map)
plot(N ~ E, data=sipoo.map, asp = 1)

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