kyldat: Data from Kentucky Lake

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Description

Plankton and environmental measurements from a long term monitoring project on Kentucky Lake, Kentucky, USA. These are data analyzed by Anderson et al. (Oikos, 127, 403-414, 2017) and stored in Dryad by the same authors (Dryad Digital Repository, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.21jt3, 2017), provided here with no alteration. Data are annual averages from 16 lake locations from 1990-2015. The original, pre-annualization data can be requested at http://www.murraystate.edu/wsi/wsi_database.aspx.

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A data frame with these columns: Station name of the sampling location Year year the samples were taken LAT_DD latitude of the location in decimal degrees LONG_DD longitude of the location in decimal degrees Hab habitat type, corresponding to whether a site was in the channel, the embayment or in embayment mouths on the west or east shoreline Temperature degrees Celsius, taken at 1 m depth intervals and averaged over all depths Conductivity mS/m, taken at 1 m depth intervals and averaged over all depths pH standard units, taken at 1 m depth intervals and averaged over all depths DissolvedOxygen taken at 1 m depth intervals and averaged over all depths NH3 mg/L, averaged over two samples taken 1 m below the surface and 1 m above the bottom SiO2 mg/L, averaged over two samples taken 1 m below the surface and 1 m above the bottom SRP mg/L, averaged over two samples taken 1 m below the surface and 1 m above the bottom DissolvedN mg/L, averaged over two samples taken 1 m below the surface and 1 m above the bottom DissolvedP mg/L, averaged over two samples taken 1 m below the surface and 1 m above the bottom TotalN mg/L, averaged over two samples taken 1 m below the surface and 1 m above the bottom TotalP mg/L, averaged over two samples taken 1 m below the surface and 1 m above the bottom SecchiDepth meters, taken on the shaded side of the boat Chlorophyll <c2><b5>g/L Bosmina number of individuals per 45 L Diaphanosoma number of individuals per 45 L Daphnia_lumholtzi number of individuals per 45 L Holopedium number of individuals per 45 L Daphnia number of individuals per 45 L; all Daphnia that were not Daphnia lumholtzi, primarily (>90 Ceriodaphnia number of individuals per 45 L Calanoida number of individuals per 45 L Cyclopoida number of individuals per 45 L Leptodora number of individuals per 45 L


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