carnivora: Carnivora body sizes and life history traits (adapted from...

carnivoraR Documentation

Carnivora body sizes and life history traits (adapted from package ape)

Description

Dataset adapted from Gittleman (1986), including 2 morphological variables (body and brain sizes), 8 life history traits variables and 4 taxonomic variables.

Usage

carnivora

Format

A data frame with 112 observations on 7 variables.

[,1] Order factor Carnivora order
[,2] SuperFamily factor Super family (Caniformia or Feliformia)
[,3] Family factor Carnivora family
[,4] Genus factor Carnivora genus
[,5] Species factor Carnivora species
[,6] Brain numeric Average brain weight of adult male and adult female (g)
[,7] Weight numeric Average body weight of adult male and adult female (kg)

Source

Gittleman, J. L. (1986) Carnivore life history patterns: allometric, phylogenetic and ecological associations. American Naturalist, 127: 744–771.

References

Paradis E. & Schliep K. 2018. ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R. Bioinformatics 35: 526-528.


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