records: Get coordinate data from GBIF and WST.

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Get coordinate data from GBIF and WST.

Description

Downloads coordinate data from records in GBIF and the World Spider Trait database.

Usage

records(tax, order = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

tax	A taxon name or vector with taxa names.
order	Order taxa names alphabetically or keep as in tax.
verbose	Display information as data are retrieved.

Details

Outputs non-duplicate records with geographical (long, lat) coordinates. As always when using data from multiple sources the user should be careful and check if records "make sense" before using them.

Value

A data.frame with species name, longitude, latitude, source database and reference.

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

Examples

## Not run: 
records("Pardosa hyperborea")
records(tax = c("Pardosa hyperborea", "Anapistula"), order = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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