Challenges and solutions for measuring taxonomic richness of aquatic invertebrates in wetlands

We analyzed six datasets (data.RData) that incuded invertebrate taxa sampled in wetlands. Data include three spatial efforts collected in North Dakota (USA), Western Cape (South Africa) and Patagonia (Argentina); and three temporal efforts collected in North Dakota (USA), Georgia (USA), Patagonia (Argentina).

Detail of data.RData:

Spatial effort data frames:

ND_spat: North Dakota (163 wetlands * 111 invertebrate taxa);

SA_spat: South Africa (139 wetlands * 127 invertebrate taxa);

PAT_spat: Patagonia (57 wetlands * 79 invertebrate taxa)

Temporal effort data frames:

ND_temp: North Dakota (17 wetlands * 23 years * 6 months per year * 155 invertebrate taxa).

CB_temp: Georgia (10 wetlands * 6 years * 3 months per year * 83 invertebrate taxa).

PAT_temp: Patagonia (18 wetlands * 5 years * 37 invertebrate taxa).

All the R codes to analyze data and produce Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 are included in the R script "Challenges_solutions_richness_wetlands.R"