ape (version 4.0)

carnivora: Carnivora body sizes and life history traits

Description

Dataset adapted from Gittleman (1986), including 2 morphological variables (body and brain sizes), 8 life history traits variables and 4 taxonomic variables.

Usage

data(carnivora)

Format

A data frame with 112 observations on 17 variables.

[,1]	Order	factor
Carnivora order	[,2]	SuperFamily
factor	Super family (Caniformia or Feliformia)	[,3]
Family	factor	Carnivora family
[,4]	Genus	factor
Carnivora genus	[,5]	Species
factor	Carnivora species	[,6]
FW	numeric	Female body weight (kg)
[,7]	SW	numeric
Average body weight of adult male and adult female (kg)	[,8]	FB
numeric	Female brain weight (g)	[,9]
SB	numeric	Average brain weight of adult male and adult female (g)
[,10]	LS	numeric
Litter size	[,11]	GL
numeric	Gestation length (days)	[,12]
BW	numeric	Birth weigth (g)
[,13]	WA	numeric
Weaning age (days)	[,14]	AI
numeric	Age of independance (days)	[,15]
LY	numeric	Longevity (months)
[,16]	AM	numeric
Age of sexual maturity (days)	[,17]	IB
numeric	Inter-birth interval (months)	[,1]

Source

Gittleman, J. L. (1986) Carnivore life history patterns: allometric, phylogenetic and ecological associations. American Naturalist, 127: 744--771.

Examples

  data(carnivora);
  # This is figure 1 of Gittleman 1986:
  library(lattice)
  trellis.device(color=FALSE)
  xyplot(BW ~ FW, groups=Family, data=carnivora, auto.key=TRUE, xlog=TRUE,
      scale=list(log=TRUE), ylim=c(1, 2000))
  trellis.device(color=FALSE)
  xyplot(BW ~ FB, groups=Family, data=carnivora, auto.key=TRUE, xlog=TRUE,
      scale=list(log=TRUE), ylim=c(1, 2000))