lilmammals: Subset of mammals dataset

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A subset of the mammals dataset including only Primates, Afrosoricida, and Lagomorpha. See mammals help for more details.

Usage

1

Format

A data frame (tibble) with 62 rows and 9 variables:

order

string: taxonomic order

family

string: taxonomic family

genus

string: taxonomic genus

species

string: taxonomic species

bodytemp

number: body temperature in degrees C

mass

number: mass in g

mass_sd

number: within-species mass standard deviation

bmr

number: basal metabolic rate in mL O2 / hr

bmr_sd

number: within-species bmr standard deviation

Source

Sieg, Annette E., Michael P. O’Connor, James N. McNair, Bruce W. Grant, Salvatore J. Agosta, and Arthur E. Dunham. 2009. Mammalian Metabolic Allometry: Do Intraspecific Variation, Phylogeny, and Regression Models Matter? Am Nat 174:720-733. https://doi.org/10.1086/606023 Raw data deposited in Dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.712


ryanraaum/qmdata documentation built on Dec. 22, 2021, 8:18 p.m.