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Summarize records of mean and standard deviation of body mass to species-level means

Source: R/species_data_functions.R
get_sp_mean_size.Rd

The CRC Handbook (Dunning 2008) often contains multiple records for mean body mass (and standard deviation of body mass) for a species, drawn from different locations or for different sexes. This function summarizes across all records for each species to produce species-level means for the mean and standard deviation of body mass.

Usage

get_sp_mean_size(sd_dat)

Arguments

sd_dat

dataframe of mean and standard deviation of body mass for all records for all species; generated by add_estimated_sds

Value

sd_dat summarized to species-level means for the mean and standard deviation of body mass

References

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