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Real field data: annual counts of rodent captures on the 24 experimental plots of the Portal Project, a long-term study in the Chihuahuan Desert near Portal, Arizona, USA, from 2016 to 2019. Since 2015 plots have been unmanipulated controls, kangaroo rat (Dipodomys) exclosures, or removals of all rodents. Only rodent species that are census targets and identified to species are kept. Each plot and year is one site.

Usage

portal_rodents

Format

A tibble with one row per site and species captured, and seven columns:

site

Site identifier, plot and year, such as "P01-2016".

plot

Plot number, 1 to 24.

year

Census year.

treatment

Experimental treatment: control, krat_exclosure or removal.

species

Two-letter species code.

scientific_name

Scientific name.

abundance

Number of captures in the year.

Source

PortalData, Weecology, https://github.com/weecology/PortalData, released under the CC0 1.0 public domain dedication. Built by data-raw/portal_rodents.R in the package source.

References

Ernest, S. K. M., Yenni, G. M., Allington, G., Bledsoe, E. K., Christensen, E. M., Diaz, R. M. et al. (2018). The Portal Project: a long-term study of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/332783

Examples

portal_rodents
#> # A tibble: 491 x 7
#>    site      plot  year treatment species scientific_name           abundance
#>    <chr>    <int> <int> <fct>     <chr>   <chr>                         <int>
#>  1 P01-2016     1  2016 removal   PM      Peromyscus maniculatus            9
#>  2 P01-2016     1  2016 removal   PE      Peromyscus eremicus               8
#>  3 P01-2016     1  2016 removal   RM      Reithrodontomys megalotis         6
#>  4 P01-2016     1  2016 removal   PP      Chaetodipus penicillatus          5
#>  5 P01-2016     1  2016 removal   PL      Peromyscus leucopus               1
#>  6 P01-2017     1  2017 removal   PP      Chaetodipus penicillatus         16
#>  7 P01-2017     1  2017 removal   OT      Onychomys torridus                9
#>  8 P01-2017     1  2017 removal   PL      Peromyscus leucopus               8
#>  9 P01-2017     1  2017 removal   PE      Peromyscus eremicus               6
#> 10 P01-2017     1  2017 removal   RM      Reithrodontomys megalotis         5
#> # i 481 more rows
div_hill(portal_rodents, q = 0, .by = c(treatment, year))
#> # A tibble: 96 x 6
#>    treatment       year site         q     n diversity
#>    <fct>          <int> <chr>    <dbl> <int>     <dbl>
#>  1 removal         2016 P01-2016     0    29         5
#>  2 removal         2017 P01-2017     0    54        10
#>  3 removal         2018 P01-2018     0    35         5
#>  4 removal         2019 P01-2019     0     8         2
#>  5 krat_exclosure  2016 P02-2016     0    81         6
#>  6 krat_exclosure  2017 P02-2017     0    84         8
#>  7 krat_exclosure  2018 P02-2018     0    41         3
#>  8 krat_exclosure  2019 P02-2019     0    70         4
#>  9 krat_exclosure  2016 P03-2016     0    79         8
#> 10 krat_exclosure  2017 P03-2017     0    66         8
#> # i 86 more rows