Species Sensitivity Distribution Data

Reference data sets of species sensitivities to compare the results of fitting species sensitivity distributions using software such as 'ssdtools' and 'Burrlioz'. It consists of curated data sets for individual chemicals from Australian, New Zealand and Canadian organizations, several data sets from anonymous sources, and larger uncurated compilations drawn from the ANZTOX, WQBench and EnviroTox databases. It also includes a data set of the results of fitting various distributions using different software.

ssddata

ssddata is an R package of Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) benchmark datasets that can serve as a reference standard for testing and evaluation of SSD methodologies.

The package includes a range of data sets sourced from the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (ccme_data), the Australian Institute of Marine Science (aims_data), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (csiro_data), and the Australian and New Zealand water quality guideline website (anzg_data, all datasets with a published date later than 2000), as well as anonymous datasets supplied by various parties (anon). The source of each dataset are indicated using a pre-fix in the data name (e.g. ccme, aims, etc), with the actual chemical name following (e.g. ccme_boron).

The package also includes wqbench_data, a large data set from the US EPA ECOTOX database, cleaned and standardized by the wqbench package; envirotox_data, a dataset based on the envirotox database; and anztox_data, based on the ANZTOX database historically hosted on the SETAC AU website.

Please see the relevant reference page for more information on each dataset.

You can browse the source code on github.

Top report an error, request features or data additions please post on the github issues page.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("open-AIMS/ssddata")