Add amniote life-history traits (Amniote Life History Database)

Joins uniform life-history traits for birds, mammals and reptiles to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name.

Usage

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

Arguments

x

A data.frame returned by taxify().

cols

Which columns to attach: NULL (default) the curated set, "all" every column the source carries, or a character vector of names. See enrichment_cols.

verbose

Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

amniote_class

Taxonomic class (Aves/Mammalia/Reptilia).

amniote_adult_body_mass_g

Adult body mass (g).

amniote_no_sex_body_mass_g

Unsexed adult body mass (g).

amniote_female_body_mass_g

Female body mass (g).

amniote_male_body_mass_g

Male body mass (g).

amniote_adult_svl_cm

Adult snout-vent length (cm).

amniote_maximum_longevity_y

Maximum longevity (years).

amniote_litter_clutch_size

Litter or clutch size (count).

amniote_clutches_per_y

Litters or clutches per year (count).

amniote_egg_mass_g

Egg mass (g).

amniote_incubation_d

Incubation period (days).

amniote_female_maturity_d

Age at female maturity (days).

amniote_gestation_d

Gestation length (days).

amniote_weaning_d

Weaning age (days).

amniote_birth_hatching_wt_g

Birth or hatching weight (g).

Details

Source: Amniote Life History Database (Myhrvold et al. 2015, Ecology, CC0). Coverage: 21,322 species across birds, mammals and reptiles.

References

Myhrvold NP et al. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109. doi:10.1890/15-0846R.1

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
taxify("Accipiter badius", backbone = "gbif") |>
  add_amniote()
} # }