tonguelength: Converts ITD (cm) to tongue length for bees.

Description Usage Arguments Value References Examples

Description

Calculates tongue length (mm) from Cariveau et al. (2015) using intertegular distance (ITD) values (cm)..

Usage

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tonguelength(x, mouthpart = "all")

Arguments

x

A dataframe with the following two columns: bee intertegular distance (IT) measurments in mm and Family, a vector of bee families. Only implemented 5 out of the extant 7 families: "Andrenidae", "Apidae", "Colletidae", "Halictidae", "Megachilidae".

mouthpart

The mouth part you are interested in. Options are "all", glossa", "prementum" and "tongue" (i.e. gloss + prementum)

Value

A dataframe with bee tongue length (mm) and 95

References

Kendall et al. (2018) Pollinator size and its consequences: Predictive allometry for pollinating insects. <doi:10.1101/397604>

Cariveau et al. (2016) The allometry of bee tongue length an its uses in ecology and evolution. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151482 <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151482>

Examples

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example=cbind.data.frame(IT=c(1.3,2.3),
                         Family=c("Andrenidae","Apidae"))
tonguelength(example,mouthpart="all")

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