adephylo (version 1.1-16)

procella: Phylogeny and quantitative traits of birds

Description

This data set describes the phylogeny of 19 birds as reported by Bried et al. (2002). It also gives 6 traits corresponding to these 19 species.

Format

procella is a list containing the 2 following objects:

tre

is a character string giving the phylogenetic tree in Newick format.

traits

is a data frame with 19 species and 6 traits

Details

Variables of procella$traits are the following ones:
- site.fid: a numeric vector that describes the percentage of site fidelity
- mate.fid: a numeric vector that describes the percentage of mate fidelity
- mass: an integer vector that describes the adult body weight (g)
- ALE: a numeric vector that describes the adult life expectancy (years)
- BF: a numeric vector that describes the breeding frequencies
- col.size: an integer vector that describes the colony size (no nests monitored)

References

Bried, J., Pontier, D. and Jouventin, P. (2002) Mate fidelity in monogamus birds: a re-examination of the Procellariiformes. Animal Behaviour, 65, 235--246.

See a data description at http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/R/pdf/pps037.pdf (in French).

Examples

if(require(ape) && require(phylobase)){

## load data, make tree and phylo4d object
data(procella)
tre <- read.tree(text=procella$tre)
x <- phylo4d(tre, procella$traits)
oldpar <- par(mar=rep(.1,4))
table.phylo4d(x,cex.lab=.7)
par(oldpar)
}