italic_taxon_data: Get data of lichen taxa

In ritalic: Interface to the ITALIC Database of Lichen Biodiversity

Get data of lichen taxa

Description

This function returns a dataframe containing taxonomy, ecology_traits, regions_distribution, ecoregions_distribution of the lichen species passed as input. For more info about these parameters see https://italic.units.it/?procedure=base&t=59&c=60#otherdata Only accepts names that exist in the database of ITALIC.

Usage

italic_taxon_data(sp_names)

Arguments

sp_names

A vector containing the scientific names of the lichen species.

Value

A dataframe containing the taxonomy, ecology distribution and rarity of the lichen species passed as input.

Note

Before using this function with a list of names, first obtain their accepted names using italic_match(). Example workflow:

      names_matched <- italic_match(your_names)
      italic_taxon_data(names_matched$accepted_name)
      

References

ITALIC - The Information System on Italian Lichens: data about taxa https://italic.units.it/?procedure=base&t=59&c=60#otherdata

Examples

## Not run: 
italic_taxon_data(c("Cetraria ericetorum Opiz", "Lecanora salicicola H. Magn."))

## End(Not run)

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