BIEN (version 1.2.6)

BIEN_trait_family: Download trait data for given families.

Description

BIEN_trait_family extracts all trait data for the specified families.

Usage

BIEN_trait_family(
  family,
  all.taxonomy = FALSE,
  political.boundaries = FALSE,
  source.citation = FALSE,
  ...
)

Value

A dataframe of all data matching the specified families.

Arguments

family

A single family or a vector of families.

all.taxonomy

Should full taxonomic information and TNRS output be returned? Default is FALSE.

political.boundaries

Should political boundary information (country, state, etc.) be returned? Default is FALSE.

source.citation

Should readable source information be downloaded for each record? Note that BIEN_metadata_citation may be more useful.

...

Additional arguments passed to internal functions.

See Also

Other trait functions: BIEN_trait_country(), BIEN_trait_genus(), BIEN_trait_list(), BIEN_trait_mean(), BIEN_trait_species(), BIEN_trait_traitbyfamily(), BIEN_trait_traitbygenus(), BIEN_trait_traitbyspecies(), BIEN_trait_traits_per_species(), BIEN_trait_trait()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
BIEN_trait_family("Poaceae")
family_vector<-c("Poaceae","Orchidaceae")
BIEN_trait_family(family_vector)}