Lognormalbirds: Species abundance distribution

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

One approach to biodiversity measurement is fitting a distribution to species abundance data. In the present case data on abundance of different species is recorded at two Indian localities in western-ghats (Arvind and Dhoni). These data are said to be 'Frequency of frequency'. Some ecological considerations suggest that a log-normal distribution should fit the data. S - the number of species observed and area under the curve to the left of 1/2 are used together to estimate the number of 'unseen' species.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 305 observations on the following 3 variables.

Site

The sites

Abundance

The number of species with abundance r each

Species

The numberof individual birds sighted

Details

Report your findings with fitting log-normal distribution and Chi-square test for Goodness of fit.

Source

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/nvjoshi/statspunedatabook/databook.html


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