lakes {alr3}R Documentation

Lake zooplankton diversity

Description

These data give the number of known crustacean zooplankton species for 69 world lakes. Also included are a number of characteristics of each lake. There are missing values.

Format

This data frame uses lake name as row label and contains the following columns:

Species
Number of zooplankton species
MaxDepth
Maximum lake depth, m
MeanDepth
Mean lake depth, m
Cond
Specific conductance, micro Siemans
Elev
Elevation, m
Lat
N latitude, degrees
Long
W longitude, degrees
Dist
distance to nearest lake, km
NLakes
number of lakes within 20 km
Photo
Rate of photosynthesis, mostly by the 14C method
Area
Lake area, in hectares

Source

Dodson, S. (1992), Predicting curstacean zooplankton species richness, Limnology and Oceanography, 37, 848–856.

References

Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Problem 8.12.

Examples

data(lakes)

[Package alr3 version 1.1.12 Index]