moths: Moths caught with light traps at Rothamsted 1933-1936
Description
Number of captured individuals of species of nocturnal
macrolepidoptera (moths) in light traps at the Rothamsted Experimental
Station, UK between 1933 and 1936.format
A unnamed vector of 240 integers.source
Column I of table 3 of Fisher et al. (1943), which did not
provide species names.Details
This is one of the datasets that C. B. Williams used to show the
application of Fisher's log-series to describe the abundance of species
in a random sample of a biological community.References
Fisher, R.A., Corbert, A.S. and Williams, C.B. 1943. The Relation
between the number of species and the number of individuals in a random
sample of an animal population.
The Journal of Animal Ecology, 12: 42--58.