ConBatch: Batch process, preliminary conservation assessments
In rCAT: Conservation Assessment Tools

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) References See Also Examples

Combines all of routines in rCAT to process multiple species for AOO, EOO etc.

1	ConBatch(taxa, lat, long, cellsize, project2gether)

`taxa`	field which defines a list of species or taxa
`lat`	field which defines the latitude set of points
`long`	field which defines the longtitude set of points
`cellsize`	cell length in metres used to for AOO projection N.B. IUCN recommend 2000 m (ie 2 km)
`project2gether`	TRUE or FALSE, TRUE all data is projected together using the centre of all latitudes and longtitudes. FALSE each species is projected separately. Default = FALSE

This function expects a list of taxa and latitudes and longitudes.ie

species_w	85.388000	84.33100
species_w	-45.467000	88.41500
species_w	-34.339000	-149.52600
species_x	-29.620000	79.11900
species_x	33.409000	-33.94700
species_x	64.692000	-149.18900
species_y	2.308000	-140.21900
species_y	41.452000	-3.65600
species_y	-30.475000	-129.99600

etc

dataframe with; taxa ,Number of points, Area of the enclosing recetangle, EOO Area in km2, AOO area in km2, EOO IUCN category, AOO IUCN category

	taxa	NOP	MER	EOOkm2	AOO2km	EOOcat	AOOcat
1	species x	14	918562.259811711	585915.607417865	14	LC	EN
2	species y	124	1717224.64389286	634149.482670821	124	LC	EN
3	species z	61	22622717.2314339	17839113.1220552	61	LC	EN
4	species w	1130	509390660.388499	506445176.073246	1130	LC	VU

Has a switch to either project all data as a whole or each taxa separately. I would suggest you use this switch if data is all from a simlar area (i.e. all from one country/region)

Justin Moat. J.Moat@kew.org

Bachman, S., Moat, J., Hill, A.W., de Torre, J., Scott, B., 2011. Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool. Zookeys 126, 117–26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2109

Moat, J. F. 2007. Conservation assessment tools extension for ArcView 3.x, version 1.2. Retrieved from http://www.kew.org/gis/projects/cats/catsdoc.pdf

Moat, J., Bachman, S.,(2017) GeoCAT Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool [WWW Document]. URL http://geocat.kew.org/

Joppa, L.N., Butchart, S.H.M., Hoffmann, M., Bachman, S.P., Akçakaya, H.R., Moat, J.F., Böhm, M., Holland, R.A., Newton, A., Polidoro, B., Hughes, A., 2016. Impact of alternative metrics on estimates of extent of occurrence for extinction risk assessment. Conserv. Biol. 30, 362–370. doi:10.1111/cobi.12591

MER for Minimum Enclosing Rectangle calculations, EOOarea for EOO calculations, EOORating for EOO Ratings, AOOsimp for AOO calculations, AOORating for AOO Ratings,

lat <- runif (200,-24,-12)
long <- runif (200,43,51)
spa <- rep('aa',50)
spb <- rep('bb',150)
mydata <- data.frame(species=c(spa,spb),lat,long)
resultsdf <- ConBatch(mydata$species,mydata$lat,mydata$long,2000,FALSE)