Species accumulation data for fish of the Western Ghats of India.

Species accumulation data for fish of the Western Ghats of India derived from nine random samples of publications.

Format

A data frame with 350 observations on the following 2 variables.

unit

a manuscript that was reviewed.

cumspec

cumulative number of species described in the reviewed manuscripts.

Source

From (approximately) Figure 1 in Dahanukar, N., R. Raut, and A. Bhat. 2004. Distribution, endemism and threat status of freshwater fishes in the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Biogeography 31:123-126. CSV file

Topic(s)

• Other

Examples

data(Ghats)
str(Ghats)
#> 'data.frame':	350 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ unit   : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 ...
#>  $ cumspec: int  1 4 10 25 32 47 51 53 67 72 ...
head(Ghats)
#>   unit cumspec
#> 1    1       1
#> 2    1       4
#> 3    1      10
#> 4    1      25
#> 5    1      32
#> 6    1      47
plot(cumspec~unit,data=Ghats)