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In daijiang/rnps: Species Lists for National Park Services

rnps

R package to get National Park Services' species Lists.

You can install this package with

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("daijiang/rnps")

Overview

This package is set to help download species lists (at this moment, may extend to download other data) from park units managed by National Park Services. The website we download from is NPSpecies, which includes >500 park units for 17 taxa groups. I have downloaded all available records for plants (rnps::nps_plants) and birds (rnps::nps_birds) in this package since it takes a while to do so.

To check all park units, use

rnps::get_nps_code()

## # A tibble: 532 x 2
##    UnitCode                                                   FullName
##  *    <chr>                                                      <chr>
##  1     ABLI Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park (ABLI)
##  2     ACAD                                Acadia National Park (ACAD)
##  3     ADAM                      Adams National Historical Park (ADAM)
##  4     AFAM                 African American Civil War Memorial (AFAM)
##  5     AFBG             African Burial Ground National Monument (AFBG)
##  6     AGFO                 Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (AGFO)
##  7     ALKA                Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail  (ALKA)
##  8     ALAG                                  Alagnak Wild River (ALAG)
##  9     ALCA                                    Alcatraz Island  (ALCA)
## 10     ALEU       Aleutian World War II National Historic Area  (ALEU)
## # ... with 522 more rows

To check all taxa groups, use

rnps::get_taxa_code()

##    Id                  Name
## 1   1               Mammals
## 2   2                 Birds
## 3   4              Reptiles
## 4   5            Amphibians
## 5   3                  Fish
## 6  11       Vascular Plants
## 7  12   Non-vascular Plants
## 8   7  Crab/Lobsters/Shrimp
## 9   9          Slugs/Snails
## 10  6     Spiders/Scorpions
## 11  8               Insects
## 12 10 Other Non-vertebrates
## 13 13                 Fungi
## 14 14              Protozoa
## 15 16             Chromista
## 16 15              Bacteria
## 17 17               Archaea

To get species list of one taxa group at a specific park, use

rnps::get_one_park(parkcode = "ACAD", categcode = 3) # 3 for fish

## # A tibble: 38 x 22
##    Abundance Nativeness UnitCode             UnitName     Id IsAccepted
##  *     <chr>      <chr>    <chr>                <chr>  <int>      <lgl>
##  1  Abundant     Native     ACAD Acadia National Park 138231       TRUE
##  2   Unknown     Native     ACAD Acadia National Park 359763       TRUE
##  3    Common     Native     ACAD Acadia National Park 205714       TRUE
##  4   Unknown    Unknown     ACAD Acadia National Park   4464       TRUE
##  5   Unknown    Unknown     ACAD Acadia National Park 166792       TRUE
##  6    Common     Native     ACAD Acadia National Park  71630       TRUE
##  7  Uncommon Non-native     ACAD Acadia National Park 247290       TRUE
##  8  Abundant     Native     ACAD Acadia National Park  74266       TRUE
##  9    Common     Native     ACAD Acadia National Park  80516       TRUE
## 10      <NA>    Unknown     ACAD Acadia National Park 248367       TRUE
## # ... with 28 more rows, and 16 more variables: RecordStatus <chr>,
## #   Occurrence <chr>, TaxonCode <chr>, SciName <chr>, Rank <chr>,
## #   Kingdom <chr>, CategoryName <chr>, NPSpeciesCategorySortOrder <int>,
## #   Order <chr>, Family <chr>, CommonNames <chr>, SourceName <chr>,
## #   ExternalCode <chr>, LifecycleState <chr>, NumberOfParks <int>,
## #   OccurrenceTags <chr>

Further ideas

It is possible to also download other information about national parks, such as area, visitors, etc in the future. Contributes are welcome.

daijiang/rnps documentation built on May 5, 2019, 3:49 p.m.