Richard P. Duncan, David M. Forsyth, and Jim Hone. 2007. Testing the metabolic theory of ecology: allometric scaling exponents in mammals. Ecology 88:324–333.


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Files containing (a) the estimates of rm for species included in our analyses (with multiple estimates per species where available), (b) the reference sources for the rm estimates, (c) the final data used in the analyses, and (d) the R function used to do the PGLS analyses.
Ecological Archives E088-020-S1
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Richard P. Duncan
Bio-Protection and Ecology Division
P. O. Box 84
Lincoln University
Lincoln 7647 New Zealand
E-mail: duncanr@lincoln.ac.nz

David M. Forsyth
Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Department of Sustainability and Environment
123 Brown Street, Heidelberg
Victoria 3084 Australia
E-mail: dave.forsyth@dse.vic.gov.au

Jim Hone
Institute for Applied Ecology
University of Canberra
Canberra Australia
ACT 2601
E-mail: jim.hone@canberra.edu.au


File list

rm data.txt - The estimates of rm for species included in our analyses (with multiple estimates per species where available).
rm sources.txt - The reference sources for the rm estimates.
all data.txt - The final data used in the analyses.
pgls.R - The R function used to do the PGLS analyses.

Description

In rm data.txt, the columns are: Species (the species of mammal); rm (the rm estimate); Method (the method by which rm was estimated: either direct counts or using Cole 1954) and Source (the reference source of the rm estimate). rm sources.txt lists the full citation for references in the Source column of rm data.txt that are not in reference list of the paper. In all data.txt, the columns are: Order (the mammalian order in which the species is classified); Family (the mammalian family in which the species is classified); Species (the species of mammal); log10(rm) (maximum rate of population growth [rm in units of year-1], log10 transformed); log10(alpha)(age at first reproduction [α in units of years], log10 transformed); log10(B) (basal metabolic rate [B in units of watts], log10 transformed) and log10(M)(body mass [M in units of grams], log10 transformed). pgls.R is the R code for the function used to do the PGLS analyses described in the paper.


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