rCAT (version 0.1.6)

EOORating: IUCN rating based from EOO Area

Description

Calculates IUCN rating based on Extent of Occurance (EOO) Area in km2

Usage

EOORating(EOOArea, abb)

Arguments

EOOArea

Area in km2

abb

TRUE or FALSE , TRUE = 2 letter code, FALSE = full text (see value), default = TRUE

Value

Text one of CR, EN, VU, NT, LC or Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Near Threatened, Least Concern

Details

Calculates IUCN rating from EOO

References

Bachman, S., Moat, J., Hill, A.W., de Torre, J., Scott, B., 2011. Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool. Zookeys 126, 117<U+2013>26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2109

Moat, J., Bachman, S., n.d. GeoCAT Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool [WWW Document]. URL http://geocat.kew.org/

IUCN, 2012. IUCN RED LIST CATEGORIES AND CRITERIA, 2nd ed. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee, 2014. Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 11.

IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee, 2016. Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 12.

Joppa, L.N., Butchart, S.H.M., Hoffmann, M., Bachman, S.P., Ak<U+00E7>akaya, H.R., Moat, J.F., B<U+00F6>hm, M., Holland, R.A., Newton, A., Polidoro, B., Hughes, A., 2016. Impact of alternative metrics on estimates of extent of occurrence for extinction risk assessment. Conserv. Biol. 30, 362<U+2013>370. doi:10.1111/cobi.12591

See Also

EOOarea for EOO calculations

Examples

# NOT RUN {
EOOArea <- 25 
EOORtext <- EOORating(EOOArea,TRUE)
# }