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Wolves

Inbreeding in Wolves


Description

Inbreeding coefficient and the number of pups produced in 24 mated pairs of wolves (Canis lupus) from 1983-2002.

Format

A data frame with 24 observations on the following 2 variables.

inbreeding.coefficient

a numeric vector

pups

a numeric vector

Source

Liberg, O.H., H. Andrén, H.-C. Pedersen, H. Sand, D. Sejberg, P. Wabakken, M. Åkesson, and S. Bensch. 2005. Severe inbreeding depression in a wild wolf (Canis lupus) population. Biology Letters 1: 17-20.

Examples

Wolves
xyplot(inbreeding.coefficient ~ jitter(pups, amount=0.15), Wolves)

abd

The Analysis of Biological Data

v0.2-8
GPL-2
Authors
Kevin M. Middleton <middletonk@missouri.edu>, Randall Pruim <rpruim@calvin.edu>
Initial release
2015-07-02

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