cecropia: Quantitative component of effectiveness for Cecropia...

cecropiaR Documentation

Quantitative component of effectiveness for Cecropia glaziovii-frugivorous birds interactions. Focal observations at Parque Estadual Intervales, Sao Paulo. Pedro Jordano. 25 Mar 2012.

Description

Data from a field project during the Frugivory and Seed dispersal field course, 2012.

Usage

data(cecropia)

Format

A dataset (dataframe).

Details

Visitation data come from 140 h direct watches. A data.frame with 42 obs. of 37 variables.

First 6 variables are codes for Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, and species label.

Variables include:

totvis- Number of visits recorded, pooled all trees.

totbic- Mean number of peckings to Cecropia catkins during a single visit. Birds do several peckings and ingest the seeds from these small pieces of the catkins. This may be used to estimate ingestion rate per visit.

sde- Effectiveness estimate for the quantitative component, totvis * totbic.

Columns 10-37 are the number of visits recorded to each individual Cecropia tree.

Source

Data txt archive


pedroj/effectiveness_pckg documentation built on Sept. 17, 2024, 2:15 p.m.