getTaxonomy: Retrieve trees taxonomy

In BIOMASS: Estimating Aboveground Biomass and Its Uncertainty in Tropical Forests

Retrieve trees taxonomy

Description

From given genus, the function finds the APG III family, and optionally the order, from the genusFamily database and the apgFamilies dataset

Usage

getTaxonomy(genus, findOrder = FALSE)

Arguments

genus	Vector of genus names
findOrder	(Boolean) If TRUE, the output will contain the taxonomical orders of the families.

Value

Data frame with the order (if findOrder is TRUE), family and genus.

Author(s)

Ariane TANGUY, Arthur PERE, Maxime REJOU-MECHAIN

Examples

# Find the Family of the Aphelandra genus
getTaxonomy("Aphelandra")
# ... and the order

getTaxonomy("Aphelandra", findOrder = TRUE)

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