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Taxonomic data for the phytobentho species in www.freshwaterecology.info database.

Source: R/data.R
pbenthodata.Rd

A tibble

Usage

data(pbenthodata)

Format

A tibble The dataset has 1857 rows and 2 columns.

  • Taxgroup: Higher taxonomic grouping for the species, for example, Bacillariophyceae.

  • Taxon: Lower taxonomic grouping for the species.eg., Achnanthes acus, Achnanthes brevipes, Achnanthes brevipes var. brevipes

Details

This dataset was extracted from the www.freshwaterecology.info database and formed a standardized reference for the species names for phytobenthos. Therefore, all user-provided species are checked across this database to identify whether or not they exist.

References

Schmidt-Kloiber, A., & Hering, D. (2015). Www.freshwaterecology.info - An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences. Ecological Indicators, 53, 271-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.02.007.

Examples


if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

data("pbenthodata")

pbenthodata
} # }