wingloading {pollimetry}

Converts intertegular distance (mm) to wing loading (mg mm2).

Description

Calculates wing loading (mg mm2) expressed as dry weight per total wing area using intertegular distance (mm) from Bullock (1999).

Usage

wingloading(IT)

Arguments

IT

vector of intertegular distance measurements (mm).

Value

A dataframe with wing loading (mg mm2) is returned for each specimen.

References

Kendall et al. (2018) Pollinator size and its consequences: Predictive allometry for pollinating insects. <doi:10.1101/397604>

Bullock, S. H. (1999). Relationships among body size, wing size and mass in bees from a tropical dry forest in Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 426-439.

Examples

wingloading(IT=c(10,5,2))