spider: Spider data

spiderR Documentation

Spider data

Description

Abundance of hunting spiders and associated environmental variables

Usage

spider

Format

A list containing the elements

abund

A matrix with 28 observations of abundance of 12 hunting spider species.

x

A data frame of six (transformed) environmental variables at each of the 28 sites.

trait

A data frame of three species trait variables for each of the 12 species.

Details

The matrix abund has the following species abundances (column name abbreviation in brackets)

  • Alopecosa accentuata (Alopacce)

  • Alopecosa cuneata (Alopcune)

  • Alopecosa fabrilis (Alopfabr)

  • Arctosa lutetiana (Arctlute)

  • Arctosa perita(Arctperi)

  • Aulonia albimana (Auloalbi)

  • Pardosa lugubris (Pardlugu)

  • Pardosa monticola (Pardmont)

  • Pardosa nigriceps (Pardnigr)

  • Pardosa pullata (Pardpull)

  • Trochosa terricola (Trocterr)

  • Zora spinimana (Zoraspin)

The data frame x has the following log(x+1)-transformed environmental variables

  • soil.dry - Soil dry mass

  • bare.sand - Cover bare sand

  • fallen.leaves - Cover fallen leaves / twigs

  • moss - Cover moss

  • herb.layer - Cover herb layer

  • reflection - Reflection of the soil surface with a cloudless sky

The data frame trait has the following variables

  • length (numeric) - Length (log-transformed), averaged across typical lengths (in centimetres) for male and females

  • (factor) - Predominant colour, "yellow" or "dark"

  • (factor) - Whether the spider typically has markings on it: "none", "spots" or "stripes"

Source

Data attributed to van der Aart & Smeenk-Enserink (1975), obtained from the spider2 directory, CANOCO FORTRAN package, with trait data added by David Warton, exported from mvabund R package.


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