WwfLoad: Load the WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions

In speciesgeocodeR: Prepare Species Distributions for the Use in Phylogenetic Analyses

Description

Downloads a shape-file containing the terrestrial ecoregions as defined by Olson et al. 2001 from worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-theworld, unpacks them and loads the into R.

Usage

WwfLoad(x = "")

Arguments

x	the path to the folder where the shapes should be saved. If set to "" the files are saved to the working directory.

Value

An object of the class SpatialPolygonsDataframe

Note

See the speciesgeocodeR documentation for further information and examples.

References

Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E. ,Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powel, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., Damico, J. A.,Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., and Kassem, K.R. 2001 Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: A new map of life on earth. BioScience, 51(11):933–938.

http://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world

Examples

## Not run: 
wwf_eco <- WwfLoad()
plot(wwf_eco)
names(wwf_eco)
## End(Not run)

speciesgeocodeR documentation built on May 30, 2017, 12:34 a.m.