carnivora: Carnivora body sizes and life history traits

In gjuggler/ape: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

Description

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

Usage

data(carnivora)

Format

A data frame with 112 observations on 17 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]	FW	numeric	Female body weight (kg)
[,7]	SW	numeric	Average body weight of adult male and adult female (kg)
[,8]	FB	numeric	Female brain weight (g)
[,9]	SB	numeric	Average brain weight of adult male and adult female (g)
[,10]	LS	numeric	Litter size
[,11]	GL	numeric	Gestation length (days)
[,12]	BW	numeric	Birth weigth (g)
[,13]	WA	numeric	Weaning age (days)
[,14]	AI	numeric	Age of independance (days)
[,15]	LY	numeric	Longevity (months)
[,16]	AM	numeric	Age of sexual maturity (days)
[,17]	IB	numeric	Inter-birth interval (months)

Source

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

Examples

  data(carnivora);
  # This is figure 1 of Gittleman 1986:
  library(lattice)
  trellis.device(color=FALSE)
  xyplot(BW ~ FW, groups=Family, data=carnivora, auto.key=TRUE, xlog=TRUE,
      scale=list(log=TRUE), ylim=c(1, 2000))
  trellis.device(color=FALSE)
  xyplot(BW ~ FB, groups=Family, data=carnivora, auto.key=TRUE, xlog=TRUE,
      scale=list(log=TRUE), ylim=c(1, 2000))

gjuggler/ape documentation built on May 17, 2019, 6:03 a.m.