spRecords: spRecords

In thaisdoria/habitaR: Tools for mapping the species’ area of habitat (AOH) from geospatial data

Description

Gets occurrence data of species from databases and turn into a SpatialPoints object#'

Usage

spRecords(sp, ex = NULL, dataBase = c('GBIF', 'VertNet', 'BISON'),
progress = FALSE)

Arguments

sp	a vector containing the names of the species.
ex	The extent of the output Spatial points. Should be an extent object or a list containing extent objects.
dataBase	vector cortaining which databases the function should search for occurrence data.

Value

spRecords returns a list containing SpatialPoints objects of the occurrence of the species.

Author(s)

Daniel Gonçalves-Souza & Thaís Dória

Examples

name <- c('Orcinus orca', 'Bothrops jararaca')
area <- list(extent(c(-179.8733, 79.3333, -8.6333, 8.65083 )), NULL)
occ.shps <- spRecords(sp = name, ex = area, dataBase = c('GBIF', 'BISON'))

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