WwfLoad: Download the WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions

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

Download the WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions

Description

Downloads a shape-file containing the terrestrial ecoregions as defined by Olson et al. 2001 from www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world, 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

A SpatialPolygonsDataframe with global biomes and ecoregions.

Note

See https://github.com/azizka/speciesgeocodeR/wiki for more details and tutorials.

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)

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