gd_get_biome: Get the biome, temperature and precipitation of a site
In guillembagaria/ggbiome: Obtain and Plot Whittaker's Biome Information

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples

gd_get_biome takes either geographical coordinats or climatic data and returns the Whittaker's biome.

1	gd_get_biome(data, si_lat, si_long, si_mat, si_map, merge_deserts = FALSE)

`data`	Data frame including either geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) or climatic data (MAT and MAP).
`si_lat`	Character, name of the column containing latitude values in decimal degrees or, alternatively, if `data` not provided, a numeric value of latitude.
`si_long`	Character, name of the column containing longitude values in decimal degrees or, alternatively, if `data` not provided, a numeric value of longitude.
`si_mat`	Character, name of the column containing mean annual temperature values in degrees Celsius or, alternatively, if `data` not provided, a numeric value of MAT.
`si_map`	Character, name of the column containing mean annual precipitation values in millimeters or alternatively, if `data` not provided, a numeric value of MAP.
`merge_deserts`	Logical indicating if desert biomes should be merged in a single biome. By default, deserts are not merged.

This function takes a data frame including at least either two columns with geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude), or two columns with climatic data (mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation). It returns the same data frame with extra columns of climatic data (si_mat and si_map, if not provided) and biome (si_biome), according to gd_get_biomes_spdf.

Alternatively it accepts either a value of latitude and a value of longitude or a value of mean annual temperature (MAT) and a value of mean annual precipitation (MAP), and returns a data frame with latitude (if provided), longitude (if provided), mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation and biome.

Climatic data is obtained from WorldClim 1.4 using the RFc package.

A data frame with the original data and extra columns of mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation and biome.

Other Get.Data.Functions: gd_get_biomes_spdf

# Create a data frame with coordinates
sites <- data.frame(site = c("A", "B"), lat = c(69.49, 41.43),
                    long = c(27.23, 2.07))

# Get temperature, precipitation and biomes
gd_get_biome(sites, si_lat = "lat", si_long = "long")

# Alternatively, for one site
gd_get_biome(si_mat = 15.8, si_map = 622)