lrlake: Little Rock Lake zooplankton dataset

Description Usage Format Source References Examples

Description

Contains time series for 10 dominant crustaceous species of zooplanking sampled from Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin. Samples come from two basins: one treated to lower pH and the other an untreated reference.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 592 observations on the following 18 variables.

Month

month of year

Day

day of month

Year

sample year

LRL.Day

days from start of study

Year.Day

day of year

Surface.pH

pH measured at lake surface

Station

sample station

Basin

lake basin, either Reference or Treatment

Diacyclops

species data

Mesocyclops

species data

Tropocyclops

species data

Leptodiaptomus

species data

Bosminid

species data

D..dubia

species data

D..parvula

species data

D..catawba

species data

Diaphanosoma.birgei

species data

Holopedium.gibberum

species data

Source

http://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/

References

Keitt, T. H. 2008. Coherent ecological dynamics induced by large-scale disturbance. Nature 454:331-4. doi:10.1038/nature06935.

Examples

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data(lrlake)
x = subset(lrlake, Basin == "Reference", LRL.Day)
y = subset(lrlake, Basin == "Reference", -(1:8))
matplot(x, y, type = "l", lty = 1)

thk686/mvcwt documentation built on May 31, 2019, 10:43 a.m.