birds: birds

birdsR Documentation

birds

Description

Bird species richness in different habitat patches sampled in Jamaica.

Usage

birds

Format

A data frame with 306 rows and 5 variables:

patch

character identifier for each habitat patch

S

integer species richness (number of unique species observed)

landscape

character landscape type (Agriculture, Bauxite, Forest, or Urban )

area

double area of the habitat patch (ha)

log.area.

double log area of the habitat patch

year

integer year of observation

Source

These data were used by Jack Weiss in his ecological statistics course (site no longer available). The data almost surely come from Kennedy, C. M., Marra, P. P., Fagan, W. F., & Neel, M. C. (2010). Landscape matrix and species traits mediate responses of Neotropical resident birds to forest fragmentation in Jamaica. Ecological Monographs, 80(4), 651-669.


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