Contents of Redfield's (1934) Table II, containing columns for sampled species, carbon content by weight (normalized to 100), Nitrogen content by weight, and Phosphorus content by weight. This dataset is used in Chapter 4 of Kelley (2018).

data(redfieldPlankton, package="ocedata")

References

  1. Kelley, Dan E. Oceanographic Analysis with R. 1st ed. 2018. New York, NY: Springer New York: Imprint: Springer, 2018. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8844-0 .

  2. Alfred C. Redfield, 1934. On the proportions of organic derivations in sea water and their relation to the composition of plankton. Pages 177--192 in James Johnstone Memorial Volume, University Press of Liverpool.

See also

Other data related to Redfield (1934): redfieldNC, redfieldNP

Examples

data(redfieldPlankton, package="ocedata")
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
boxplot(redfieldPlankton$Nitrogen)
abline(h=16.7, col='gray')
boxplot(redfieldPlankton$Phosphorus)
abline(h=1.85, col='gray')