colony_metadata: Colony metadata

colony_metadataR Documentation

Colony metadata

Description

A list of additional data on the colonies

Usage

colony_metadata

Format

Each list item contains the data on a sigle colony. This is a list made up of the following components:

colony_ID

The unique colony label.

colony_size

The number of workers in the colony.

head_width

A numeric vectors representing head widths of the sampled workers in micrometers.

measurement_target

Indicates the source from which measured ants were sampled. 'Colony' means that ants were sampled from directly from the living population of the colony whereas 'corpses' means ants were sampled from dead individuals collected after transfering colonies to the laboratory.

queens_depth

A numeric vector indicating the depths at which queens have been found. The vector length is equivalent to the number of queens.


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