validateSpecies: Determines if a species is considered "valid" by looking at...

Description Usage Arguments Details See Also

View source: R/validateSpecies.R

Description

Determines if a species is considered "valid" by looking at its latin and common names. We also add a BirdTree.org column to facilitate extraction of phylogenetic and functional trait information

Usage

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validateSpecies(species.df)

Arguments

species.df

A data.frame containing results from a pullBBS object. Note that an internet connection is needed for downloading the latest version of the BirdTree / BirdLife taxonomy file

Details

'Species' names from BBS observations may not represent valid species. This function uses pattern matching in attempts to classify these vague species into valid ones. It will also match names to BirdTree.org / BirdLife taxonomy to facilitate collection of species' phylogenetic and functional traits.

See Also

pullBBS


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