galapagos: Galapagos species data
Description
Johnson and Raven (1973) have presented data giving the number of species and related variables for 29 different islands in the Galapagos Archipelago.
Format
This data frame uses the island name as row labels
and contains the following columns:
- NS
-
Number of Species
- ES
-
Number of endemic species (orrur only on that island)
- Area
-
Surface area of island, hectares
- Anear
-
Area of closest island, hectares
- Dist
-
Distance to closest island, km
- DistSC
-
Distance from Santa Cruz Island, km
- Elevation
-
Elevation in m, missing values given as zero
- EM
-
1 if elevation is observed, 0 if missing
Source
Johnson, M.P., and Raven, P.H. (1973). Species number and endemism: The Galapagos Archipelago revisited. Science, 179, 893-895.References
Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th
edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.