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Package 'traitdataform': harmonizing ecological trait data in R

Description

This package assists in handling functional trait data and transferring them into the Trait Data Standard (Schneider et al. in preparation).

Details

There are two major use cases for the package:

• preparation of own trait datasets for upload into public data bases, and

• harmonizing trait datasets from different sources by moulding them into a unified format.

The toolset of the package includes

• transforming species-trait-matrix or observation table data into a unified long-table format

• mapping column names into terms provided in a standard trait vocabulary

• matching of species names into GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (taxonomic ontology server)

• matching of trait names into a user-provided traitlist, i.e. a thesaurus of traits

• unifying trait values into target unit format and legit factor levels

• saving trait dataset into a desired format using templates (e.g. for BExIS)

A documentation is available online at http://ecologicaltraitdata.github.io/traitdataform/ or offline in the package vignette 'traitdataform'.

traitdataform documentation built on May 25, 2022, 5:07 p.m.