Average body mass of late quaternary mammals.
Format
MOMv3.3
Data frame that contains.
- Continent
Continent that a species resides on. If species resides on more than one continent, a continent specific body mass is reported when available. Thus, some mammals have multiple entries. The division between North and South America occurs at the isthmus of Panama.
- Status
Whether species is currently present in the wild (extant); extinct as of late Pleistocene (extinct), extinct within the last 300 years (historical); or an introduction (introduction); Note these do not necessarily follow CITES or IUCN categories.
- Order
Taxonomic order of species
- Family
Taxonomic family of species
- Genus
Taxonomic genus of species
- Species
Species epithet
- Log mass
Log10 transformation of Combined Mass
- Combined mass
Adult body mass averaged across males and females and geographic locations.
- Reference
Reference source for body mass information and/or status for that species; the updated electronic version of Wilson and Reeder (1993). (6 June 2002; www.nmnh.si.edu/msw) serves as the status reference for all extant species.
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Details
" -999 is a missing value code. 'The purpose of this data set was to compile body mass information for all mammals on Earth so that we could investigate the patterns of body mass seen across geographic and taxonomic space and evolutionary time.' Quoted from: Smith, F. A., Lyons, S. K., Ernest, S. K. M., Jones, K. E., Kaufman, D. M., Dayan, T., Marquet, P. A., Brown, J. H., & Haskell, J. P. (2003). Body Mass of Late Quaternary Mammals. Ecology, 84(12), 3403–3403. https://doi.org/10.1890/02-9003 Metadata available: Ecological Archives E084-093-metadata. (n.d.). Retrieved September 11, 2024, from https://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E084/094/metadata.htm"