KenyaFinches: Body Mass and Beak Length in Three Species of Finches in...

KenyaFinchesR Documentation

Body Mass and Beak Length in Three Species of Finches in Kenya

Description

Data on body mass and beak length in three species of finches: Crimson-rumped waxbill (CRU.WAXB), Cutthroat finch (CUTTHROA), and White-browed sparrow weaver (WB.SPARW).

Usage

KenyaFinches

Format

A data frame with 45 observations on the following 3 variables.

species

a factor with levels: CRU.WAXB, CUTTHROA, and WB.SPARW

mass

mass (g)

beak.length

beak length (mm)

Source

Schluter, D. 1988. The evolution of finch communities on islands and continents: Kenya vs. Galapagos. Ecological Monographs 58: 229-249.

Examples


table(KenyaFinches$species)
xyplot(beak.length ~ species, KenyaFinches)
bwplot(beak.length ~ species, KenyaFinches)


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