R: Moths caught with light traps at Rothamsted 1933-1936

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## Moths caught with light traps at Rothamsted 1933-1936

### Description

Number of captured individuals of species of nocturnal macrolepidoptera (moths) in light traps at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, UK between 1933 and 1936.

### Usage

    data(moths)

### Format

A unnamed vector of 240 integers.

### Details

This is one of the datasets that C. B. Williams used to show the application of Fisher's log-series to describe the abundance of species in a random sample of a biological community.

### Source

Column I of table 3 of Fisher et al. (1943), which did not provide species names.

### References

Fisher, R.A., Corbert, A.S. and Williams, C.B. 1943. The Relation between the number of species and the number of individuals in a random sample of an animal population. The Journal of Animal Ecology, 12: 42–58.

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