A comparative dataset containing traits for 95 Primates species (primates.data) and a multiphylo object with 101 phylogenies matching the data (primates.phy). Tip labels are the binomial species names and match with data rownames. Data was taken from (Jones et al. 2009) and phylogenies from (Fritz et al 2009) and (Kuhn et al 2011).
data(primates)A data frame with 95 rows and 3 variables:
family: Taxonomic family
adultMass: Mean adult body mass (g)
sexMaturity: Age when individuals are first physically capable of reproducing (days)
homeRange: Mean home range (km)
Data downloaded from: http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E090/184/
Jones, K. E., Bielby, J., Cardillo, M., Fritz, S. A., O'Dell, J., Orme, C. D. L., Safi, K., Sechrest, W., Boakes, E. H., Carbone, C., Connolly, C., Cutts, M. J., Foster, J. K., Grenyer, R., Habib, M., Plaster, C. A., Price, S. A., Rigby, E. A., Rist, J., Teacher, A., Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P., Gittleman, J. L., Mace, G. M., Purvis, A. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology, 90: 2648. doi: 10.1890/08-1494.1
Phylogeny: Kuhn, Tyler S., Arne O. Mooers, and Gavin H. Thomas. "A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2.5 (2011): 427-436.
Fritz, Susanne A., Olaf RP Bininda-Emonds, and Andy Purvis. "Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics." Ecology letters 12.6 (2009): 538-549.