Add diet, foraging, and body mass (EltonTraits 1.0)

Joins EltonTraits 1.0 diet composition, foraging strata, body mass, and activity data to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name.

Usage

add_elton_traits(x, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A data.frame returned by taxify().

verbose

Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

diet_inv

Percentage of diet: invertebrates.

diet_vend

Percentage of diet: endothermic vertebrates.

diet_vect

Percentage of diet: ectothermic vertebrates.

diet_vfish

Percentage of diet: fish.

diet_vunk

Percentage of diet: unknown vertebrates.

diet_scav

Percentage of diet: scavenging.

diet_fruit

Percentage of diet: fruit.

diet_nect

Percentage of diet: nectar.

diet_seed

Percentage of diet: seeds and nuts.

diet_plantother

Percentage of diet: other plant material.

foraging_water

Percentage of foraging: below water surface.

foraging_ground

Percentage of foraging: on ground.

foraging_understory

Percentage of foraging: in understory.

foraging_midhigh

Percentage of foraging: in mid to high strata.

foraging_canopy

Percentage of foraging: in canopy.

foraging_aerial

Percentage of foraging: aerial.

elton_body_mass_g

Body mass in grams.

nocturnal

Nocturnal activity (0 = diurnal, 1 = nocturnal).

Details

Source: EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014, Figshare, CC0). Coverage: ~15.4k species. Birds and mammals only.

References

Wilman H et al. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027.

Examples

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

taxify("Parus major", backend = "gbif") |>
  add_elton_traits()

options(old)