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Standard Traits

Trait Unit Attribute Group Reference
Body Mass (BM) g External measurements Hoffmann, Anke, Jan Decher, Francesco Rovero, Juliane Schaer, Christian Voigt, and Gudrun Wibbelt. "Field Methods and Techniques for Monitoring Mammals." Manual on field recording techniques and protocols for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria (2010): 482-529.
Body Mass - Female (BM-F) g None Hoffmann, Anke, Jan Decher, Francesco Rovero, Juliane Schaer, Christian Voigt, and Gudrun Wibbelt. "Field Methods and Techniques for Monitoring Mammals." Manual on field recording techniques and protocols for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria (2010): 482-529.
Body Mass - Male (BM-M) g None Hoffmann, Anke, Jan Decher, Francesco Rovero, Juliane Schaer, Christian Voigt, and Gudrun Wibbelt. "Field Methods and Techniques for Monitoring Mammals." Manual on field recording techniques and protocols for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria (2010): 482-529.
Breadth Of Braincase (BB) mm Cranial measurements Palmeirim, J.M., 1998. Analysis of skull measurements and measurers: can we use data obtained by various observers?. Journal of Mammalogy, 79(3), pp.1021-1028.
Condylobasal Length (CBL) mm Cranial measurements Palmeirim, J.M., 1998. Analysis of skull measurements and measurers: can we use data obtained by various observers?. Journal of Mammalogy, 79(3), pp.1021-1028.
Dental orientation patch count lower (OPC-L) n None Evans, Alistair R., Gregory P. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, and Jukka Jernvall. "High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents." Nature 445, no. 7123 (2007): 78-81.
Dental orientation patch count upper (OPC-U) n None Evans, Alistair R., Gregory P. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, and Jukka Jernvall. "High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents." Nature 445, no. 7123 (2007): 78-81.
Dental topographic patch count lower (TPC-L) n None Evans, Alistair R., Gregory P. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, and Jukka Jernvall. "High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents." Nature 445, no. 7123 (2007): 78-81.
Dental topographic patch count upper (TPC-U) n None Evans, Alistair R., Gregory P. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, and Jukka Jernvall. "High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents." Nature 445, no. 7123 (2007): 78-81.
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981 n/a Nominal Traits Eisenberg, John Frederick. "The mammalian radiation: An analysis of trends in evolution, adaptation, and behavior." Thc University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1981).