AVONET Bird Trait Data with Phylogeny

The AVONET Bird Trait Database joined to a pf object (for {phyf}).

Usage

avonet

Format

avonet

A 'pf' data frame (subclasses tibble) with 13,338 rows and 38 columns:

label

Node labels including species name for the tip labels

phlo

The phylogenetic flow column which stores the phylogenetic information

Species3, Family3, Order3

Taxonomic names -- Names of the species, family and order, respectively

Total.individuals

Number of individuals used to measure the data

Beak.Length_Culmen:Species.Status

Various traits of the bird species, see Source section to get more detailed information

The tree was from Jetz et al. (2012). I used the same tree as used in Maliet and Morlon (2021).

Source

https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/AVONET_morphological_ecological_and_geographical_data_for_all_birds_Tobias_et_al_2021_Ecology_Letters_/16586228

References

Tobias JA, Sheard C, Pigot AL, Devenish AJ, Yang J, Sayol F, Neate-Clegg MH, Alioravainen N, Weeks TL, Barber RA, Walkden PA. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters. 2022 Mar 1;25(3):581-97.
Maliet, O., & Morlon, H. (2021). Fast and accurate estimation of species-specific diversification rates using data augmentation. Systematic biology.
Jetz, W., Thomas, G.H., Joy, J.B., Hartmann, K., & Mooers, A.O. (2012). The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature, 491, 444-448.