Estimate Pollinator Body Size and Co-Varying Ecological Traits


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Documentation for package ‘pollimetry’ version 1.0.1

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bodysize Converts the intertegular distance (IT) and co-variates to body size in dry weight (mg) for bees or hoverflies.
foragedist Converts body weight to measures of foraging distance for bees.
headwidthsize Converts pollinator (Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera) head width (mm) to body size (dry weight (mg)).
lengthsize Converts body length to body size (body weight (mg)) for three pollinating insect groups (Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera).
lengthwidthsize Converts pollinator body length*body width to body size (dry weight (mg)).
nectarload Converts bee body length (mm) to total field nectar load (ul).
pollimetry_dataset Body size and intertegular distance measurements of ~4500 pollinating insect specimens.
tonguelength Converts ITD (cm) to tongue length for bees.
wingloading Converts intertegular distance (mm) to wing loading (mg mm2).