This dataset contains values for six functional traits of Western Europe mammals species. These values were extracted from the PanTHERIA database (Jones 2009), a database on World mammals traits available at: https://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E090/184/metadata.htm. In respect to the IUCN license, species names have been anonymized.
Format
A matrix with 149 rows (species) and the following seven columns:
- species
species name corresponding to the columns of
site_species- adult_body_mass
adult body mass (in grams)
- gestation_length
length of time of non-inactive fetal growth (in days)
- litter_size
number of offspring born per litter per female
- max_longevity
maximum adult age (in months)
- sexual_maturity_age
age when individuals are first physically capable of reproducing (in days)
- diet_breadth
number of dietary categories eaten
Details
See https://github.com/frbcesab/eumammals for a complete description of the workflow used to create this dataset.
This dataset shows the format of the argument species_traits used in
several functions of funbiogeo.
Note that species names (species) is the first column of this dataset.
References
Jones KE et al. (2009) PanTHERIA: A species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology, 90, 2648. DOI: 10.1890/08-1494.1.
Examples
data("species_traits")
class(species_traits)
#> [1] "data.frame"
dim(species_traits)
#> [1] 149 7
head(species_traits)
#> species adult_body_mass gestation_length litter_size max_longevity
#> 1 sp_001 461900.76 235.00 1.25 324.0
#> 2 sp_002 21.11 19.89 5.64 48.0
#> 3 sp_003 NA NA NA NA
#> 4 sp_004 NA NA NA NA
#> 5 sp_005 31.60 24.50 4.94 48.0
#> 6 sp_006 21.90 23.68 5.16 52.8
#> sexual_maturity_age diet_breadth
#> 1 668.20 1
#> 2 76.04 NA
#> 3 NA NA
#> 4 NA NA
#> 5 43.27 NA
#> 6 57.93 4