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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.

Arguments

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.

Examples

Run this code
head(galapagos)

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