moid_traits {ctpm}

R Documentation

Trait data on 57 species of extant musteloids.

Description

Morphological and life history data on mean male body mass (kg), mean male body mass (kg), sexual size dimorphism (male mass/female mass), mean male body length (mm), mean female body length (mm), mean litter size (number of offspring), social class (Solitary, Pairs, Variable Groups, Groups), and diet (Carnivorous, Piscivorous, Insectivorous, Omnivorous, Frugivorous/Herbivorous) for 57 species of extant musteloids.

Usage

data("moid_traits")

Format

An object of class "data.frame".

References

Noonan, M. J., Johnson, P. J., Kitchener, A. C., Harrington, L. A., Newman, C., and Macdonald, D. W. (2016). Sexual size dimorphism in musteloids: An anomalous allometric pattern is explained by feeding ecology. Ecology and evolution, 6(23), 8495-8501. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2480. Noonan, M. J., Fagan, W. F., and Fleming C. H. (2021) “A semi-variance approach to visualising phylogenetic autocorrelation”. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, in press.

See Also

musteloids.

Examples

# Load package and data
library(ctpm)
data("moid_traits")

# Plot male mass versus female mass
plot(moid_traits$Mass.M ~ moid_traits$Mass.F)

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