A data set with example benthic macroinvertebrate data. Calculate metrics then statistics. Data from MBSS.

data_benthos_MBSS

Format

A data frame with 50,664 observations on the following 31 variables.

INDEX_NAME

a character vector

SITEID

a character vector

DATE

a character vector

TAXON

a character vector

N_TAXA

a numeric vector, count

N_GRIDS

a numeric vector, number of grids in subsample (max = 30)

EXCLUDE

a character vector, whether taxon should be excluded from taxa richness metrics

INDEX_CLASS

a character vector, index region

Phylum

a character vector

Class

a character vector

Order

a character vector

Family

a character vector

Genus

a character vector

Other_Taxa

a character vector

Tribe

a character vector

FFG

a character vector

FAM_TV

a numeric vector

Habit

a character vector

FinalTolVal07

a numeric vector

FinalTolVal08

a numeric vector

UFC

a numeric vector

UFC_Comment

a character vector

SUBCLASS

a character vector

INFRAORDER

a character vector

LIFE_CYCLE

a character vector

BCG_ATTR

a character vector

THERMAL_INDICATOR

a character vector

LONGLIVED

a character vector

NOTEWORTHY

a character vector

FFG2

a character vector

HABITAT

a character vector

Source

example data from MBSS