search_gbif_data: Function to search and download gbif data

In luismurao/ntbox: From Getting Biodiversity Data to Evaluating Species Distribution Models in a Friendly GUI Environment

Function to search and download gbif data

Description

Searchs gbif data using the function occ from the spocc package

Usage

search_gbif_data(
  genus,
  species,
  occlim = 10000,
  writeFile = FALSE,
  leafletplot = FALSE,
  showClusters = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

genus	Species genus
species	Species name
occlim	Occurrence data search limit.
writeFile	Write gibif data into a csv
leafletplot	Logical, if TRUE the records will be plotted on a leaflet map.
showClusters	Logical. Display geographic cluster on the leaflet map.
...	Pass arguments to the function occ from spocc

Details

Note that this function is for exploration proposes. If you want to use GBIF data in publications you should generate and cite DOI information according to this

Value

Returns a data.frame with coordinate data from species

Examples

## Not run: 
# Species genus
genus <- "ambystoma"
# Species name
species <- "tigrinum"
# GBIF search
ambystoma_tigrinum <- ntbox::search_gbif_data(genus,species,
                                       occlim=100,
                                       writeFile=FALSE)
head(ambystoma_tigrinum[,1:5])

## End(Not run)

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