Weecology can has new mammal dataset
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So the Weecology folks have published a large dataset on mammal communities in a data paper in Ecology. I know nothing about mammal communities, but that doesn’t mean one can’t play with the data…Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Their dataset consists of five csv files: communities, references, sites, species, and trapping data.
Where are these sites, and by the way, do they vary much in altitude?
Let’s zoom in on just ‘the states’?
What phylogenies can we get for the species in this dataset?
We can use the rOpenSci package treebase to search the online phylogeny repository TreeBASE. Limiting to returning a max of 1 tree (to save time), we can see that X species are in at least 1 tree on the TreeBASE database. Nice.
So there are 321 species in the database with at least 1 tree in the TreeBASE database. Of course there could be many more, but we limited results from TreeBASE to just 1 tree per query.
Here’s the code:
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