[R-sig-eco] Ecological datasets for teaching statistics

[Roman Luštrik]

I slacked off a bit, but three datasets from Zuur's book can be found in
AED package.

https://github.com/romunov/AED

Cheers,
Roman

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:11 PM Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much Tom.
>
> Manuel
>
> El jue., 18 jun. 2020 a las 12:05, Philippi, Tom (<Tom_Philippi using nps.gov>)
> escribió:
>
> > Many ecological journals either encourage or require that the dataset
> > behind a paper be submitted to a repository such as dryad, or included as
> > an electronic appendix.  Even if your university does not have
> > institutional subscription to all journals, some journals like Ecosphere
> > are open-access, many journals allow authors to pay to make their papers
> > open-access, and some journals with paywall papers allow free access to
> the
> > abstract and the supplements including datasets or links to the datasets
> in
> > repositories.  That has an advantage of letting you work from a topic or
> > form of data for your teaching to find suitable datasets.  Also, those
> > datasets tend to be cleaned and documented and close to ready for the
> > analyses, as they were used in the analyses in the publications.
> >
> > The rdryad package from rOpenSci (on CRAN) has the ability to search
> > dryad, but I suspect that search works better with ecological keywords
> than
> > statistical ones.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R-sig-ecology <r-sig-ecology-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of
> > Rich Shepard
> > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 10:38 AM
> > To: r-sig-ecology using r-project.org
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [R-sig-eco] Ecological datasets for teaching
> > statistics
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Manuel Spínola wrote:
> >
> > > I teach statistics to students in ecology and environmental sciences
> > > fields and I would like to know if you could point me in the right
> > > direction of sources of ecological/environmental datasets within and
> > > outside packages, especially for general/generalized linear models and
> > > multivariate statistics.
> >
> > Manuel,
> >
> > Ecology, and it's applied focus Environmental science, are very broad.
> > I've been working with these data for several decades so I need to ask
> what
> > types of data you want.
> >
> > I don't know what's available from Costa Rican agencies but I do know
> that
> > in the US you can get geochemical, biological, hydrologidal, and other
> data
> > from the US Geological Survay, Environmental Protection Agency (if
> they've
> > not removed them), Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Natural
> > Resources Conservation Service.
> >
> > You can also look at StreamNet run by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries
> > Council, The Army Corps of Engineers for hydraulic, flow, and sediment
> > transport data.
> >
> > That's a start.
> >
> > Rich
> >
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