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Vertebrate Base Metabolic Rates with Phylogeny

vert_bmr.Rd

Data on vertebrate base Metabolic rates joined to a pf object (for {phyf})

Usage

vert_bmr

Format

vert_bmr

A 'pf' data frame (subclasses tibble) with 1,712 rows and 8 columns:

label

Node labels including species name for the tip labels

phlo

The phylogenetic flow column which stores the phylogenetic information

lnBMR

Natural log of the base metabolic rate

lnMass

Natural log of body mass

lnMass2

Squared natural log of body mass

lnGS

Natural log of genome size

endo

Is the species endothermic? 1 for yes, 0 for no

Source

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.3c6d2

References

Uyeda JC, Pennell MW, Miller ET, Maia R, McClain CR. The evolution of energetic scaling across the vertebrate tree of life. The American Naturalist. 2017 Aug 1;190(2):185-99.