gamair (version 0.0-9)

blowfly: Nicholson's Blowfly data

Description

Data on a laboratory population of Blowfies, from the classic ecological studies of Nicholson.

Usage

data(blowfly)

Format

A data frame with 2 columns and 180 rows. The columns are:

• popCounts (!) of the population of adult Blowflies in one of the experiments.
• dayDay of experiment.

Details

The population counts are actually obtained by counting dead blowflies and back calculating.

References

Nicholson, A.J. (1954a) Compensatory reactions of populations to stresses and their evolutionary significance. Australian Journal of Zoology 2, 1-8.

Nicholson, A.J. (1954b) An outline of the dynamics of animal populations. Australian Journal of Zoology 2, 9-65.

Wood, S.N. (2006) Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R

Examples

  data(blowfly)
  with(blowfly,plot(day,pop,type="l"))