cricket_song {Biostatistics}

Cricket song dataset

Description

Data on condition, resource availability (food quality) and sexual signalling (calling song) in the decorated cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus.

Usage

data("cricket_song")

Format

A data frame with 568 observations on the following 5 variables.

Diet

total nutritional content of the diet in percent

Pronotum

Pronotum width in mm

Mass0

mass at the start of the experiment in g

Delta_smi

change in weight over the first week in g

Song_week1

Total amount of time the animal sang in the first week of the experiment in seconds

Source

Houslay, Thomas M. et al. (2017), Data from: Mating opportunities and energetic constraints drive variation in age-dependent sexual signalling, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.tj693

References

Houslay, T.M., Houslay, K.F., Rapkin, J., Hunt, J. & Bussi??re, L.F. (2017) Mating opportunities and energetic constraints drive variation in age-dependent sexual signalling (ed C Miller). Functional ecology, 31, 728-741.

Examples

data(cricket_song)
str(cricket_song)