BIEN (version 1.2.7)

BIEN_occurrence_family: Extract species occurrences by family.

Description

BIEN_occurrence_family extracts all occurrences for a given family (or families) from the BIEN database.

Usage

BIEN_occurrence_family(
  family,
  cultivated = FALSE,
  new.world = NULL,
  observation.type = FALSE,
  all.taxonomy = FALSE,
  native.status = FALSE,
  natives.only = TRUE,
  political.boundaries = FALSE,
  collection.info = FALSE,
  only.geovalid = TRUE,
  ...
)

Value

Dataframe containing occurrence records for the specified family/families.

Arguments

family

A single family or a vector of families.

cultivated

Return known cultivated records as well? Default is FALSE.

new.world

NULL (The default) returns global records, TRUE returns only New World, and FALSE only Old World.

observation.type

Return information on type of observation (i.e. specimen vs. plot)? The default value is FALSE.

all.taxonomy

Return all taxonomic information? This includes the raw data as well as the "scrubbed" data.

native.status

Return information on introduction status? The default value is FALSE. A value of TRUE also returns additional information on introduction status.

natives.only

Exclude detected introduced species? Default is TRUE.

political.boundaries

Return information on political boundaries for an observation? The default value is FALSE.

collection.info

Return additional information about collection and identification? The default value is FALSE.

only.geovalid

Should the returned records be limited to those with validated coordinates? Default is TRUE

...

Additional arguments passed to internal functions.

See Also

Other occurrence functions: BIEN_occurrence_box(), BIEN_occurrence_country(), BIEN_occurrence_county(), BIEN_occurrence_genus(), BIEN_occurrence_records_per_species(), BIEN_occurrence_sf(), BIEN_occurrence_species(), BIEN_occurrence_state()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
BIEN_occurrence_family("Theaceae")
family_vector<-c("Theaceae","Ericaceae")
BIEN_occurrence_family(family_vector)}