map: Map species ranges.

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Map species ranges.

Description

Maps species range according to the World Spider Catalogue and records according to GBIF and the World Spider Trait database.

Usage

map(
  tax,
  countries = TRUE,
  records = TRUE,
  hires = FALSE,
  zoom = FALSE,
  order = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

tax	A taxon name or vector with taxa names.
countries	Maps countries according to WSC.
records	Maps records according to GBIF and WST.
hires	Provides high resolution maps. Beware it might take longer to render.
zoom	If records is TRUE, the map will be zoomed to the region with records.
order	Order taxa names alphabetically or keep as in tax.
verbose	Display information as data are retrieved.

Details

Countries based on the interpretation of the textual descriptions available at the World Spider Catalogue (2022). These might be only approximations to country level and should be taken with caution.

Value

A world map with countries and records highlighted.

References

Pekar et al. (2021). The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database, 2021: baab064. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab064

World Spider Catalog (2022). World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch. doi: 10.24436/2.

Examples

## Not run: 
map(c("Pardosa hyperborea"))
map("Amphiledorus", zoom = TRUE, hires = TRUE)
map(c("Pardosa hyperborea", "Iberesia machadoi"), countries  = FALSE, hires = TRUE, zoom = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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