data_whales: Whale body size and speciation rates

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Whale body size and speciation rates

Description

Data on the body size of many cetacean species and species-specific speciation rates. This dataset is part of the package and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Usage

data_whales

Format

A data.frame with 75 rows and 4 columns.

species

Whale species

log_mass

Log of body mass (grams)

S

Species-specific speciation rate

color

Suggested color to be used for the tip's clade

Details

Species follow taxonomy from Steeman et al (2009). Species-specific speciation rates from Rabosky 2014 & Rabosky et al, 2014. Mass data from PanTHERIA (Jones et al, 2009).

Source

Compilation of many primary sources (see details).

References

Jones, K. E., Bielby, J., Cardillo, M., Fritz, S. A., O'Dell, J., Orme, C. D. L., ... & Purvis, A. (2009). PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals: Ecological Archives E090‐184. Ecology, 90(9), 2648-2648.

Rabosky, D. L. (2014). Automatic detection of key innovations, rate shifts, and diversity-dependence on phylogenetic trees. PLoS one, 9(2), e89543.

Rabosky, D. L., Grundler, M., Anderson, C., Title, P., Shi, J. J., Brown, J. W., ... & Larson, J. G. (2014). BAMM tools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5(7), 701-707.

Steeman, M. E., Hebsgaard, M. B., Fordyce, R. E., Ho, S. Y., Rabosky, D. L., Nielsen, R., ... & Willerslev, E. (2009). Radiation of extant cetaceans driven by restructuring of the oceans. Systematic biology, 58(6), 573-585.

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