wingloading: Converts intertegular distance (mm) to wing loading (mg mm2).

Description Usage Arguments Value References Examples

Description

Calculates wing loading (mg mm2) expressed as dry weight per total wing area using intertegular distance (mm) from Bullock (1999).

Usage

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Arguments

IT

vector of intertegular distance measurements (mm).

Value

A dataframe with wing loading (mg mm2) is returned for each specimen.

References

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

Bullock, S. H. (1999). Relationships among body size, wing size and mass in bees from a tropical dry forest in Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 426-439.

Examples

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wingloading(IT=c(10,5,2))

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