Characteristics of a sample of West African rivers.
Characteristics of a sample of West African rivers.
A data frame of 39 observations on the following 6 variables:
name of the river.
fish species richness.
surface area in km^2.
mean annual discharge in \frac{m^3}{s}.
terrestrial vegetation diversity (Shannon's diversity index of vegetation in drainage).
percentage of drainage area covered by lowland rain forest.
Other
From Table 1 in Hugueny, B. 1989. West African rivers as biogeographic islands: species richness of fish communities. Oecologia 79:236-243.
data(AfricanRivers) str(AfricanRivers) head(AfricanRivers)
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