Palmer Penguins

palmerpenguins

The goal of palmerpenguins is to provide a great dataset for data exploration & visualization, as an alternative to iris.

Data were collected and made available by Dr. Kristen Gorman and the Palmer Station, Antarctica LTER, a member of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. The dataset contains data for 344 penguins. There are 3 different species of penguins in this dataset, collected from 3 islands in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.

Data are available by CC-0 license in accordance with the Palmer Station LTER Data Policy and the LTER Data Access Policy for Type I data.

Citation

BibTeX citation:

@article{b. gorman2014,
  author = {B. Gorman, Kristen and D. Williams, Tony and R. Fraser,
    William},
  title = {Ecological Sexual Dimorphism and Environmental Variability
    Within a Community of {Antarctic} Penguins (Genus {Pygoscelis)}},
  journal = {PLoS ONE},
  date = {2014},
  url = {https://datapages.github.io/datapage//about.html},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0090081},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

B. Gorman, Kristen, Tony D. Williams, and William R. Fraser. 2014. “Ecological Sexual Dimorphism and Environmental Variability Within a Community of Antarctic Penguins (Genus Pygoscelis).” PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090081.