beetle.RdThese data describe the abundance of ground beetle assemblages from the Scottish landscape alongside with the environmental data and species traits. The data includes abundances of 68 species of ground beetle species.
data(beetle)A data frame of species composition of the ground-beetle assemblages.
A data frame of study design variables and environmental data.
A data frame of the species names and species morphological and life trait characteristics.
Beetles were sampled with two parallel rows of nine pitfall traps (diameter 7.5 cm, 2 m apart) at each site, starting in early May.
Detailed description of the data available in the reference and in the Ecological Archives E082-012.
Ignacio Ribera, Sylvain Dolédec, Iain S. Downie, and Garth N. Foster. 2001. Effect of land disturbance and stress on species traits of ground beetle assemblages. Ecology 82:1112-1129.
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
data(beetle)
# Abundance matrix
Y <- beetle$Y
# Environmental data
X <- beetle$X
# Species traits
TR <- beetle$TR
} # }