AfricanRivers {FSAdata} | R Documentation |
Characteristics of a sample of West African rivers.
Description
Characteristics of a sample of West African rivers.
Format
A data frame of 39 observations on the following 6 variables:
- river: name of the river.
- richness: fish species richness.
- surface: surface area in km^2.
- disch: mean annual discharge in \frac{m^3}{s}.
- vegdiv: terrestrial vegetation diversity (Shannon's diversity index of vegetation in drainage).
- forperc: percentage of drainage area covered by lowland rain forest.
Topic(s)
Source
From Table 1 in Hugueny, B. 1989. West African rivers as biogeographic islands: species richness of fish communities. Oecologia 79:236-243.
Examples
data(AfricanRivers)
str(AfricanRivers)
head(AfricanRivers)
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