Ты имеешь в виду что-то подобное?
library(tidyverse)
dat %>%
mutate(
functional_level = fct_relevel(functional_level,
c("low_TL", "inter_TL", "Myrmecophage",
"mesocarnivores", "large_species",
"apex_carnivores", "megafauna"
)
)
) %>%
ggplot(aes(x = specie, y = responserate,
colour = energetic_level, size = functional_level)) +
geom_point(alpha = .9) +
scale_colour_continuous(low = '#32CD32', high = '#ff4040') +
labs(x = 'Species', y = 'Response rate') +
ggthemes::theme_few() +
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, vjust = .5))

Так что единственное, что тебе нужно сделать, это перезарядить свой functional_level
и после этоговы можете сопоставить его с размером точек (ggplot предупредит вас об этом) и отобразить energetic_level
в цвет точки.
Данные:
structure(list(specie = structure(c(1L, 2L, 3L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L,
11L, 14L, 23L, 10L, 12L, 17L, 4L, 9L, 13L, 15L, 18L, 20L, 22L,
24L, 16L, 19L, 21L, 25L, 26L), .Label = c("AAOtol_cras", "ABMiop_tal",
"ACCLep_cap", "ADGenet_gen", "BAThry_swin", "BBPhil_mont", "BCChlor_cyn",
"BDCerc_mit", "CALept_serv", "CBCivet_civ", "CCHys_afri", "DSylv_grim",
"ELyc_pict", "FCan_mes", "GTrag_scri", "HPant_pa", "IOryct_afer",
"JRed_aru", "LCroc_croc", "MPota_larv", "NPant_le", "OHipp_eq",
"PTrag_oryx", "QSync_caf", "RHipp_amph", "SLox_afric"), class = "factor"),
responserate = c(7.2, 1.6, 14.4, 20, 20.8, 72.8, 5.6, 23.2,
1.6, 16, 43.2, 48, 11.2, 0, 0.8, 0.8, 100, 100, 100, 14.4,
81.6, 18.4, 0, 0, 22.4, 1.6), energetic_level = c(2.4, 3,
3, 2.8, 2.6, 3.2, 2.5, 2.8, 4.9, 2.7, 4.4, 3.1, 5, 5.8, 5.8,
5.8, 3, 3, 3.2, 3, 3, 6, 6, 6, 3, 3), functional_level = structure(c(4L,
4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 2L, 7L, 6L, 6L, 6L,
3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 5L, 5L), .Label = c("apex_carnivores",
"inter_TL", "large_species", "low_TL", "megafauna", "mesocarnivores",
"Myrmecophage"), class = "factor")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
-26L))