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LSTbook (version 0.6)

Offspring: Relative sizes offspring/parent for many species

Description

Body mass of adult of numerous vertebrate species and newly hatched or born offspring.

Usage

data("Offspring")

Arguments

Format

A data.frame with 3971 rows, each for a different species

  • species

  • class (phylogenetic class)

  • group (phylogenetic group)

  • adult Mass of the adult (female) in grams.

  • hatchling Mass of the offspring, in grams. This applies as well to species where the offspring is born rather than hatched.