Corvus morphology

Description

This data set gives a morphological description of 28 species of the genus Corvus split in two habitat types and phylogeographic stocks.

Usage

data(corvus)

Format

corvus is data frame with 28 observations (the species) and 4 variables :

wing

: wing length (mm)

bill

: bill length (mm)

habitat

: habitat with two levels clos and open

phylog

: phylogeographic stock with three levels amer(America), orien(Oriental-Australian), pale(Paleoarctic-African)

References

Laiolo, P. and Rolando, A. (2003) The evolution of vocalisations in the genus Corvus: effects of phylogeny, morphology and habitat. Evolutionary Ecology, 17, 111–123.

Examples

data(corvus)

if(adegraphicsLoaded()) {
  g1 <- s.label(corvus[, 1:2], plab.cex = 0, pori.incl = FALSE, pgrid.draw = F, 
    paxes.draw = T, paxes.asp = "full", xlab = names(corvus)[2], 
    ylab = names(corvus)[2], plot = FALSE)
  g2 <- s.class(corvus[, 1:2], corvus[, 4]:corvus[, 3], plot = FALSE)
  G <- superpose(g1, g2, plot = TRUE)

} else {
  plot(corvus[, 1:2])
  s.class(corvus[, 1:2], corvus[, 4]:corvus[, 3], add.p = TRUE)
}