Add longevity and life-history traits (AnAge)

Joins AnAge (Animal Ageing and Longevity Database) traits to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name.

Usage

add_anage(x, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A data.frame returned by taxify().

verbose

Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

max_longevity_yr

Maximum longevity in years.

anage_body_mass_g

Adult body mass in grams.

metabolic_rate_w

Basal metabolic rate in watts.

female_maturity_d

Female age at sexual maturity in days.

male_maturity_d

Male age at sexual maturity in days.

gestation_incubation_d

Gestation or incubation length in days.

anage_litter_size

Litter or clutch size.

birth_mass_g

Mass at birth in grams.

growth_rate

Growth rate (1/days).

temperature_k

Body temperature in Kelvin.

Details

Source: AnAge (de Magalhaes & Costa 2009, CC BY). Coverage: ~4.7k vertebrate species (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish).

References

de Magalhaes JP, Costa J (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:1770-1774.

Examples

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

taxify("Vulpes vulpes", backend = "gbif") |>
  add_anage()

options(old)