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Between-species dominance in birds data

Source: R/datasets.R
birds.Rd

Francis et al. (2018) conducted an experiment to study the competitive interactions between 10 species of birds. These are the data presented in Table 1 of this paper. doi:journal.pone.0202152.t001

Usage

birds

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 8 variables.

  • species: a two-letter abbreviation for the bird species.

  • species_name: the common bird species name.

  • sci_name: the scientific bird species name.

  • mass_g: mean species mass in grams.

  • dom_rank: dominance rank, the smaller the value the more dominant species tends to be over other species.

  • dom_rank_LCI: lower 95% confidence limit for the dominance rank.

  • dom_rank_UCI: upper 95% confidence limit for the dominance rank.

Source

Data for species identities, mass and dominance rankings from Francis et al (2018). S1 dataset. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202152.s002

References

Francis M.L., Plummer K.E., Lythgoe B.A., Macallan C., Currie T.E., Blount J.D. (2018) Effects of supplementary feeding on interspecific dominance hierarchies in garden birds. PLoS ONE 13(9): e0202152. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202152