Add Alpine ground-beetle traits (Chamberlain et al.) — add_alpine

Joins body size and wing morphology for the carabid fauna of the Italian Alps to a taxify() result by accepted name.

Usage

add_alpine_carabids(x, cols = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x: A data.frame returned by taxify().
cols: Which columns to attach: NULL (default) both, or a character vector of names. See enrichment_cols.
verbose: Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with alpine_ columns: numeric body_length_mm, categorical wing_morph.

Details

Source: Chamberlain et al. (2020), 185 species recorded at 416 sites between 697 and 2840 m in the Italian Alps. CC0.

The widest European carabid trait table after add_chowdhury(), and the one that reaches the Alpine fauna the lowland compilations miss. Like every European carabid source its body sizes trace back to carabids.org, so agreement with those is not corroboration; it runs 1.03 against them, the same quantity without being the verbatim copy add_eberswalde() is.

wing_morph arrives as bare letters with no legend in the file. The codes were read off the data rather than assumed: crossed against add_chowdhury()'s words, b is short-winged, m long-winged and d dimorphic.

References

Chamberlain D, Gobbi M, Negro M, et al. (2020) Trait-modulated decline of carabid beetle occurrence along elevation gradients across the European Alps. Journal of Biogeography 47:1030-1041. doi:10.1111/jbi.13792

Data: doi:10.5061/dryad.fn2z34tq1

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
taxify(c("Abax exaratus", "Carabus depressus")) |>
  add_alpine_carabids()
} # }