PanTHERIA-style mammal life-history sample

A ~5,400-species sample of mammal life-history records, prepared to mirror the structure of the PanTHERIA database. Used by the db-assembly-workflow_mammals vignette.

Usage

mammal_pantheria_example

Format

A tibble with ~5,416 rows and 4 columns:

MSW05_Binomial

Length-1 character vector. Scientific name under MSW3 (Mammal Species of the World 3) taxonomy.

5-1_AdultBodyMass_g

Numeric. Adult body mass (g); NA when unknown.

15-1_LitterSize

Numeric. Mean litter size; NA when unknown.

16-1_LittersPerYear

Numeric. Litters per year; NA when unknown.

Source

Jones et al. (2009) PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90:2648. doi:10.1890/08-1494.1