wingloading {pollimetry} | R Documentation |
Calculates wing loading (mg mm2) expressed as dry weight per total wing area using intertegular distance (mm) from Bullock (1999).
wingloading(IT)
IT |
vector of intertegular distance measurements (mm). |
A dataframe with wing loading (mg mm2) is returned for each specimen.
Kendall et al. (2018) Pollinator size and its consequences: Predictive allometry for pollinating insects. <doi:10.1101/397604>
Bullock, S. H. (1999). Relationships among body size, wing size and mass in bees from a tropical dry forest in Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 426-439.
wingloading(IT=c(10,5,2))