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

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

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

Description

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

Usage

wingloading(IT)

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. (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")}.

• 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

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

liamkendall/pollimetry documentation built on April 28, 2023, 2:09 a.m.