simberloff


A compilation of taxonomic (species and genus) counts for a wide array of organism groups for island and associated mainland locations.  Taken from Simberloff (1970).


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Contains functions from: Aho, K. (2014) Foundational and Applied Statistics for Biologists using R.  CRC/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, ISBN: 978-1-4398-7338-0.

Ken Aho

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simberloff function

A data frame with 204 observations on the following 12 variables.
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    <dt><code>Location</code></dt><dd>Island and mainland location.</dd> <dt><code>Designation</code></dt><dd>A factor with levels <code>Island</code> <code>Mainland</code>.</dd> <dt><code>Hypothesized.source</code></dt><dd>Hypothesized mainland location for particular island location.</dd> <dt><code>No.spp.</code></dt><dd>The number of species</dd> <dt><code>Obs.S.G</code></dt><dd>Observed species/genus (S/G) ratio</dd> <dt><code>E.S.G.</code></dt><dd>Expected S/G ratio, based on random sampling from mainland pool of species.</dd> <dt><code>prop..obs..cogeners</code></dt><dd>The proportion of observed cogeners, only reported for bird species.</dd> <dt><code>prop..exp..cogeners</code></dt><dd>The proportion of expected cogeners based on raindom sampling from the associated mainland pool of species, only reported for bird species.</dd> <dt><code>Authority</code></dt><dd>Sourc of infomration for compilation,</dd> <dt><code>Life.form</code></dt><dd>A factor with levels <code>Ants</code> <code>Land birds</code> <code>Passerine birds</code> <code>Vascular plants</code>.</dd> <dt><code>Notes.1</code></dt><dd>Notes from Simberloff (1970)</dd> <dt><code>Notes.2</code></dt><dd>Additional notes from Simberloff (1970)</dd> </dl> 

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Simberloff, D. (1970) Taxonomic diversity of island biotas. <em>Evolution</em> 24, 23-47.

simberloff: Compilations of genus and species counts from Simberloff (1970)

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