Add cross-taxon body mass and metabolic rate (AnimalTraits)

Joins AnimalTraits body mass and metabolic rate data to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name.

Usage

add_animaltraits(x, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A data.frame returned by taxify().

verbose

Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

animaltraits_body_mass_kg

Median body mass in kg.

animaltraits_metabolic_rate_w

Median metabolic rate in watts.

Details

Source: AnimalTraits (Hebert et al. 2022, CC0). Coverage: ~2k species across arthropods, vertebrates, molluscs, and annelids. Individual-level observations aggregated to species medians.

References

Hebert K et al. (2022) AnimalTraits – a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data 9:265.

Examples

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

taxify("Drosophila melanogaster", backend = "gbif") |>
  add_animaltraits()

options(old)