mammals: Phylogeny and body mass data for extant and extinct mammals...

mammalsR Documentation

Phylogeny and body mass data for extant and extinct mammals families/genera from Slater, 2013

Description

A list containing two elements:

  • ⁠$mammal.mass⁠ A data.frame with mean and standard error of mammal body masses in ln(mass in g).

  • ⁠$mammal.phy⁠ A time-calibrated phylogeny of extinct and extant mammal families/genera.

Source: Slater, G. J. (2013). Phylogenetic evidence for a shift in the mode of mammalian body size evolution at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4(8), 734-744. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1111/2041-210X.12084")}

Usage

data(mammals)

Format

A list with 2 elements.

  • ⁠$mammal.mass⁠ A data.frame of 213 observations and two columns. Values are numerical.

  • ⁠$mammal.phy⁠ A time-calibrated phylogeny of 211 tips.

Details

Initial dataset from Slater, G. J. (2013). The R object was imported from R package motmot to include in deepSTRAPP.


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