Counts of diatom species in springs of the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park

A dataset due to Spitale and Cantonati comprising abundances of different species of diatoms

Usage

data(spitale)

Format

A count object

Source

Data kindly provided by Daniel Spitale

References

D. Spitale and M. Cantonati 2011. “Understanding the natural variability of diatom assemblages in springs of the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park (south-eastern Alps) on a temporal scale”. Fundamental Applied Limnology volume 179/2, pp137–149

Examples

data(spitale)
summary(spitale)
#> Number of individuals: 14842 
#> Number of species: 76 
#> Number of singletons: 16 
#> Most abundant species: ACHNMINU (4667 individuals)
#> estimated theta:  10.39131