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Whale body size and speciation rates
Description
Data on the body size of many cetacean species and species-specific speciation rates. This dataset is part of the package and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Usage
data_whales
Format
A data.frame
with 75 rows and 4 columns.
- species
Whale species
- log_mass
Log of body mass (grams)
- S
Species-specific speciation rate
- color
Suggested color to be used for the tip's clade
Details
Species follow taxonomy from Steeman et al (2009). Species-specific speciation rates from Rabosky 2014 & Rabosky et al, 2014. Mass data from PanTHERIA (Jones et al, 2009).
Source
Compilation of many primary sources (see details).
References
Jones, K. E., Bielby, J., Cardillo, M., Fritz, S. A., O'Dell, J., Orme, C. D. L., ... & Purvis, A. (2009). PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals: Ecological Archives E090‐184. Ecology, 90(9), 2648-2648.
Rabosky, D. L. (2014). Automatic detection of key innovations, rate shifts, and diversity-dependence on phylogenetic trees. PLoS one, 9(2), e89543.
Rabosky, D. L., Grundler, M., Anderson, C., Title, P., Shi, J. J., Brown, J. W., ... & Larson, J. G. (2014). BAMM tools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5(7), 701-707.
Steeman, M. E., Hebsgaard, M. B., Fordyce, R. E., Ho, S. Y., Rabosky, D. L., Nielsen, R., ... & Willerslev, E. (2009). Radiation of extant cetaceans driven by restructuring of the oceans. Systematic biology, 58(6), 573-585.