leda: Extracts functional traits from the LEDA traitbase.

In GioBo/TR8: A Tool for Downloading Functional Traits Data for Plant Species

Extracts functional traits from the LEDA traitbase.

Description

leda allows the user to extract data from LEDA_df which is a http://www.leda-traitbase.org/LEDAportal/. subset of the data available on the LEDA traitbase website

Usage

leda(species_list, TRAITS,rearranged)

Arguments

species_list	a vector containing names of plant species
TRAITS	a vector containing the traits to be downloaded (used as a check for tr8_gui() created variables)
rearranged	a variable which passes the already downloaded LEDA dataset if this is available (NULL otherwise)

Details

The function returns a data.frame with species as rows and LEDA functional traits as columns. NA will be used for those traits which do not have values in the LEDA traitbase. Species names are converted to accepted names (sensu TNRS).

Value

dataframe containing traits data and species names as row.names

Author(s)

Gionata Bocci <[e-mail]>

References

Kleyer, M., Bekker, R.M., Knevel, I.C., Bakker, J.P, Thompson, K., Sonnenschein, M., Poschlod, P., Van Groenendael, J.M., Klimes, L., Klimesova, J., Klotz, S., Rusch, G.M., Hermy, M., Adriaens, D., Boedeltje, G., Bossuyt, B., Dannemann, A., Endels, P., Götzenberger, L., Hodgson, J.G., Jackel, A-K., Kühn, I., Kunzmann, D., Ozinga, W.A., Römermann, C., Stadler, M., Schlegelmilch, J., Steendam, H.J., Tackenberg, O., Wilmann, B., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Eriksson, O., Garnier, E., Peco, B. (2008): The LEDA Traitbase: A database of life-history traits of Northwest European flora. Journal of Ecology 96: 1266-1274.

See Also

leda\_download\_to\_local\_directory

Examples

## Not run: 

#My_traits<-leda(species_list=c("Abies alba"))

## End(Not run)

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