oceanDivDat: Function 1.1 oceanDist: allows getting presences and...

In monteroserra/rOceansNew: Spatial Trends in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation

Description

allows getting occurrences from OBIS and GBIF for a list of species

Usage

oceanDivDat(species_names, data_source = "OBIS", remove_duplicates = T,
  remove_land_dots = T, minimum_data = 5)

Arguments

species_names	list of species names in latin
data_source	source data, it can be "OBIS","GBIF" or both "OBIS_GBIF"
remove_duplicates	if True, checks and removes duplicates
remove_land_dots	if True, checks and removes land based occurrences
minimum_data	treshold of minimum required data for including species in the analysis, checks and deletes any species for which less than "minim_data" were found

Details

The function creates downloads occurrences data from the specific sources and stores them in a data frame.

Value

The result is an object of class dataframe that contains species names and coordiantes

Author(s)

I. Montero-Serra, E. Aspillaga, V. Barve, N Barve & K. Kaplan,

monteroserra/rOceansNew documentation built on May 13, 2019, 1:09 p.m.