invasive_flags: Flag records with species that are invasive.

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) Examples

Description

It is important to know if an occurrence is natural, rather than an escapee from captivity, or say, a plant cultivated in a park, or indeed if the occurrence is extralimital to is normal range, e.g. a vagrant migratory bird that has drifted way off-course. Usually these records are excluded from spatial analyses.

Usage

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invasive_flags(gbif_data)

Arguments

gbif_data

Dataframe from GBIF with one mandatory fields; scientificName

Value

Same dataframe with one additional column; invasiveFlags

Author(s)

thiloshon <thiloshon@gmail.com>

Examples

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dat <- rgbif::occ_data(scientificName = 'Ursus americanus')
flagged_dat <- invasive_flags(dat$data)

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