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

In liamkendall/pollimetry: Estimate Pollinator Body Size and Co-Varying Ecological Traits

Converts ITD (mm) to tongue length for bees.

Description

Calculates tongue length (mm) from Cariveau et al. (2015) and Melin et al. (2019) using intertegular distance (ITD) values (mm).

Usage

tonguelength(x, mouthpart = "all")

Arguments

x	A dataframe with the following two columns: bee intertegular distance (IT) measurements in mm and family, a vector of bee families. Only six out of the extant seven families are implemented: "Andrenidae", "Apidae", "Colletidae", "Halictidae", "Melittidae" and "Megachilidae".
mouthpart	The mouthpart 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. (2019) Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects. Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), 1702-1714. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1002/ece3.4835")}.

• Cariveau et al. (2016) The allometry of bee tongue length an its uses in ecology and evolution. PloS one, 11(3): e0151482. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pone.0151482")}.

• Melin et al. (2019) The allometry of proboscis length in Melittidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidae) and an estimate of their foraging distance using museum specimens. PloS one, 14(6), e0217839. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pone.0217839")}.

Examples

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

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