FSAdata (version 0.3.6)

AfricanRivers: Characteristics of a sample of West African rivers.

Description

Characteristics of a sample of West African rivers.

Format

A data frame of 39 observations on the following 6 variables:

river

name of the river.

richness

fish species richness.

surface

surface area in \(km^2\).

disch

mean annual discharge in \(\frac{m^3}{s}\).

vegdiv

terrestrial vegetation diversity (Shannon's diversity index of vegetation in drainage).

forperc

percentage of drainage area covered by lowland rain forest.

Topic(s)

• Other

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(AfricanRivers)
str(AfricanRivers)
head(AfricanRivers)

# }