mammals: Mass and basal metabolic rate data for mammals
In ryanraaum/qmdata: Datasets for Quantitative Methods for Biological Anthropology Course
Description
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Format
Source
Description
These data are from a study evaluating the hypothesis that there is a
universal metabolic rate–body mass scaling relationship.
Usage
1
Format
A data frame (tibble) with 696 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
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Description Usage Format Source
Description
These data are from a study evaluating the hypothesis that there is a universal metabolic rate–body mass scaling relationship.
Usage
1 |
Format
A data frame (tibble) with 696 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
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