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redfieldPlankton: Redfield's (1934) Table II

Description

Contents of Redfield's (1934) Table II, containing columns for sampled species, carbon content by weight (normalized to 100), Nitrogen content by weight, and Phosphorus content by weight. This dataset is used in Chapter 3 of Kelley (2011).

Usage

data(redfieldPlankton)

source

Data entered verbatim (sans italics for species name) by Dan Kelley from Redfield's (1934) Table II.

References

Dan Kelley, in preparation. Oceanographic Analysis with R. Springer Verlag.

Alfred C. Redfield, 1934. On the proportions of organic derivations in sea water and their relation to the composition of plankton. Pages 177--192 in James Johnstone Memorial Volume, University Press of Liverpool.

See Also

See redfieldNP and redfieldNC.

Examples

data(redfieldPlankton)
attach(redfieldPlankton)
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
boxplot(Nitrogen)
abline(h=16.7, col='gray')
boxplot(Phosphorus)
abline(h=1.85, col='gray')