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moths: Moth Species Richness

Description

Data set of moth species richness from Ohio and Indiana, USA.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 21 observations on the following 6 variables.

region

a factor with levels NCT WAP for the two collection regions.

site

a factor with levels associated with county names.

area

a numeric vector for the area of each forest fragment

spp

a numeric vector, the number of moth species.

lat

a numeric vector; latitude

long

a numeric vector; longitude

References

K. S. Summerville and T. O. Crist. 2003. Determinants of lepidopteran community composition and species diversity in eastern deciduous forests: roles of season, ecoregion and patch size. Oikos, 100:134-148.

K. S. Summerville and T. O. Crist. 2004. Contrasting effects of habitat quantity and quality on moth communities in fragmented landscapes. Ecography, 27:3-12.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
data(moths)
plot(spp ~ area, data=moths)

# }

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