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Generate table of species-level means for the mean and standard deviation of body mass for species in the Breeding Bird Survey

Source: R/species_data_functions.R
generate_sd_table.Rd

Goes from the raw_masses dataframe (included in bbssize) of records of species' mean and (where provided) standard deviation of body mass from the CRC Handbook (Dunning 2008) to a table of species-level means for the mean and standard deviation of body mass, incorporating estimates for missing standard deviation records and resolving taxonomic updates between the publication of the CRC Handbook and present releases of the Breeding Bird Survey dataset (Paradieck et al. 2019).

Usage

generate_sd_table(raw_size_data)

Arguments

raw_size_data

the raw_masses dataframe

Value

a dataframe of species-level means for mean body size and standard deviation of body size

References

  • Dunning, J. B. (2008). CRC handbook of avian body masses (2nd ed.). CRC Press.

  • Pardieck, K. L., Ziolkowski, D. J., Lutmerding, M., Aponte, V., & Hudson, M.-A. (2019). North American Breeding Bird Survey Dataset 1966—2018, version 2018.0. U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HE8XYJ