Species accumulation data for fish of the Western Ghats of India.

Description

Species accumulation data for fish of the Western Ghats of India derived from nine random samples of publications.

Format

A data frame with 350 observations on the following 2 variables.

• unit: a manuscript that was reviewed.
• cumspec: cumulative number of species described in the reviewed manuscripts.

Topic(s)

• Other

Source

From (approximately) Figure 1 in Dahanukar, N., R. Raut, and A. Bhat. 2004. Distribution, endemism and threat status of freshwater fishes in the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Biogeography 31:123-126.

Examples

data(Ghats)
str(Ghats)
head(Ghats)
plot(cumspec~unit,data=Ghats)