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)

• Other

Source

From Table 1 in Hugueny, B. 1989. West African rivers as biogeographic islands: species richness of fish communities. Oecologia 79:236-243.

Examples

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