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Counts of Waders at 15 Sites in South Africa

Description:

The waders data frame has 15 rows and 20 columns. The entries are counts of waders in summer.

Variables:

This data frame contains the following columns (species)

S1: Oystercatcher
S2: White-fronted Plover
S3: Kitt Lutz's Plover
S4: Three-banded Plover
S5: Grey Plover
S6: Ringed Plover
S7: Bar-tailed Godwit
S8: Whimbrel
S9: Marsh Sandpiper
S10: Greenshank
S11: Common Sandpiper
S12: Turnstone
S13: Knot
S14: Sanderling
S15: Little Stint
S16: Curlew Sandpiper
S17: Ruff
S18: Avocet
S19: Black-winged Stilt

The rows are the sites:

A = Namibia North coast
B = Namibia North wetland
C = Namibia South coast
D = Namibia South wetland
E = Cape North coast
F = Cape North wetland
G = Cape West coast
H = Cape West wetland
I = Cape South coast
J= Cape South wetland
K = Cape East coast
L = Cape East wetland
M = Transkei coast
N = Natal coast
O = Natal wetland

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Files:

Counts of Waders at 15 Sites in South Africa_1248_51.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

J.C. Gower and D.J. Hand (1996) Biplots Chapman & Hall Table 9.1. Quoted as from:

R.W. Summers, L.G. Underhill, D.J. Pearson and D.A. Scott (1987) Wader migration systems in south and eastern Africa and western Asia. Wader Study Group Bulletin 49 Supplement, 15–34.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Counts_of_Waders_at_15_Sites_in_South_Africa_1248_51.csv")