mvabund (version 3.9.1)

spider: Spider data

Description

data from spider2 directory, CANOCO FORTRAN package.

Usage

data(spider)

source

Data attributed to van der Aart & Smeenk-Enserink (1975), obtained from the spider2 directory, CANOCO FORTRAN package.

Details

The abundance of each species was measured as a count of the number of organisms in the sample.

References

ter Braak, C. J. F. and Smilauer, P. (1998) CANOCO reference manual and user's guide to CANOCO for Windows: software for canonical community ordination (version 4). Microcomputer Power, New York, New York, USA. van der Aart, P. J. M., and Smeenk-Enserink, N. (1975) Correlations between distributions of hunting spiders (Lycos- idae, Ctenidae) and environmental characteristics in a dune area. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 25, 1-45.

Examples

require(graphics)

data(spider)
spiddat <- as.mvabund(spider$abund)

plot(spiddat)