R: Reef fish (damselfish) data

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## Reef fish (damselfish) data

### Description

Two data sets on Dascyllus trimaculatus (three-spot damselfish), one on the distribution of settlement densities to empty anemones across time and space, the other on survival (recruitment) of arriving settlers as a function of experimentally manipulated densities from Schmitt et al. (1999).

### Usage

    data(DamselSettlement)
    data(DamselRecruitment)
    data(DamselRecruitment_sum)

### Format

Three data frames:

`site`

  settlement site (location)

`pulse`

  monthly settlement pulse

`obs`

  observation within pulse

`density`

  density of settlers per 0.1 m2 anemone

`area`

  anemone area in cm2

`init`

  initial settler density

`surv`

  surviving density after 6 months

`settler.den`

  target experimental density of settlers on experimental anemones

`surv.den`

  mean surviving density after 6 months, by target density

`SE`

  standard error of survivor density, by target density

### Source

Schmitt et al. (1999), "Quantifying the effects of multiple processes on local abundance", Ecology Letters 2:294-303. DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00086.x (Original data kindly provided by Schmitt and Holbrook.) The original version of this data set is available from the Moorea Coral Reef LTER data repository.

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