Add amphibian life-history traits (AmphiBIO)

Joins AmphiBIO amphibian life-history and ecological traits to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name.

Usage

add_amphibio(x, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A data.frame returned by taxify().

verbose

Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

body_size_mm

Maximum body size in mm (snout-vent length).

age_maturity_d

Age at maturity in days.

longevity_d

Maximum longevity in days.

litter_size

Clutch/litter size.

reproductive_output

Reproductive output per year.

offspring_size_mm

Offspring size in mm.

direct_development

Direct development (0/1).

larval

Has larval stage (0/1).

aquatic

Aquatic habitat (0/1).

fossorial

Fossorial habitat (0/1).

arboreal

Arboreal habitat (0/1).

diurnal

Diurnal activity (0/1).

nocturnal_amphibio

Nocturnal activity (0/1). Named nocturnal_amphibio to avoid collision with EltonTraits' nocturnal column.

Details

Source: AmphiBIO (Oliveira et al. 2017, CC BY 4.0). Coverage: ~6,800 amphibian species. Amphibians only.

References

Oliveira BF, Sao-Pedro VA, Santos-Barrera G, Penone C, Costa GC (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4:170123.

Examples

# Runs offline against the bundled example database.
old <- options(taxify.data_dir = taxify_example_data())

taxify("Bufo bufo", backend = "gbif") |>
  add_amphibio()

options(old)