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Add seed mass and plant height (Diaz et al. 2022)

Source: R/add-diaz-traits.R
add_diaz_traits.Rd

Joins species-level mean seed mass and plant height from Diaz et al. (2022) to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name.

Usage

add_diaz_traits(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:

seed_mass_mg

Seed mass in milligrams (species-level mean).

plant_height_m

Plant height in metres (species-level mean).

Details

Source: Diaz et al. 2022, TRY File Archive (CC BY 3.0). Coverage: ~46k plant species. Plants only.

References

Diaz S, Kattge J, Cornelissen JHC, Wright IJ, Lavorel S, Dray S, Reu B, Kleyer M, Wirth C, Prentice IC, et al. (2022) The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data 9:755. doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9

Diaz S, Kattge J, Cornelissen JHC, Wright IJ, Lavorel S, Dray S, Reu B, Kleyer M, Wirth C, Prentice IC, et al. (2016) The global spectrum of plant form and function. Nature 529:167-171. doi:10.1038/nature16489

Examples

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

taxify("Quercus robur") |>
  add_diaz_traits()

options(old)