Add mammal life-history traits (PanTHERIA) — add

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

Usage

add_pantheria(x, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x: A data.frame returned by taxify().
verbose: Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

pantheria_body_mass_g: Adult body mass in grams.
longevity_mo: Maximum longevity in months.
litter_size: Litter size (mean).
gestation_d: Gestation length in days.
weaning_d: Weaning age in days.
home_range_km2: Home range size in km\(^2\).
diet_breadth: Diet breadth (number of diet categories).
habitat_breadth: Habitat breadth (number of habitat types).

Details

Source: PanTHERIA (Jones et al. 2009, Ecological Archives, CC0). Coverage: ~5.4k mammal species. Mammals only.

References

Jones KE et al. (2009) PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90:2648.

Examples

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

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

options(old)