DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10655872
title: Rodent Data Synthesis

description: Brief motivation for the dataset compilation 

Rodent body mass varies greatly between species and contrasts well. Body mass can vary, for example, a capybara can weigh about 50 kilograms while a jerboa can weigh as little as 3.8 grams. A compilation of rodent body masses can showcase the variety of different body masses between species. This data synthesis was done to show the spectrum of body masses in the rodentia order, making up 40% of all mammal species. 

Literature search protocol

Google Scholar was used as the search engine for the literature search. This was done in the week beginning 05/02/2024. Randomised name generators of the species were used to randomly select species of rodentia and then search terms were added after the name of species such as body mass and weight. Only studies that carried out experiments and groundwork were used in the data synthesis, literature that used data from databases were excluded. 

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