SpeciesArea: Land Area and Mammal Species

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Description

Land area and number of mammal species for islands in Southeast Asia

Format

A dataset with 14 observations on the following 5 variables.

Name	Name of the island
Area	Area (in sq. km)
Species	Number of mammal species
logArea	Natural logarithm (base e) of Area
logSpecies	Natural logarithm (base e) of Species

Details

This dataset shows the number of mammal species and the area for 13 islands in Southeast Asia. Biologists have speculated that the number of species is related to the size of an island and would like to be able to predict the number of species given the size of an island.

Source

Heaney, Lawrence R. (1984) "Mammalian species richness on islands on the Sunda Shelf, Southeast Asia," Oecologia, 61:11 17.

Stat2Data documentation built on May 2, 2019, 7:25 a.m.