organism features master table

Identifies organisms and their key features for Ewing's Quantitative Population Ethology simulation. Each row corresponds to a `species` to be used in the simulation. Note that `subclass` names must correspond to possible `current` stage for that `species`.

Format

Data frame with one row per organism potentially in the study. By default, the first two organisms are selected for simulation initialization in init.simulation. Missing values indicate this feature is not relevant for this species.

units

time units (DD=degree days, hr=hours)

offspring

Poisson mean number of offspring if numeric, or reference to host if character; see host.parasite object.

attack

character name of host for attack or feeding

birth

stage for birth of offspring if host; missing if parasite

substrate

substrate on which organism lives

deplete

energy depletion rate over time of offspring load in units of number of offspring

subclass

ageclass of species to use for substrate movements in future.events

parasite

type of parasite or predator (ecto=ectoparasitoid, endo=endoparasitoid)

move

stage when species can move around substrate

Source

Lisa D. Forster and Robert F. Luck, Entomology, UC Riverside.

References

www.stat.wisc.edu/~yandell/ewing

See also

init.simulation,future.events

Examples

data(organism.features)