Carnivores: Presence of terrestrial carnivores of the family Felidae and environmental variables.

Description

Presence of terrestrial carnivores of the family Felidae and mean of environmental variables in cells of 1 degree x 1 degree around the world.

Usage

data(Carnivores)

Arguments

Format

A matrix of the presence of terrestrial carnivores of the family Felidae and the mean altitude, mean annual temperature, isothermality, temperature seasonality and mean annual precipitation in cells of 1 degree x 1 degree around the world.

Source

The range maps of the species were obtained from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at the web page http://www.iucn.org/. The data of the mean annual temperature (BIO1), isothermality (BIO3), temperature seasonality (BIO4) and mean annual precipitation (BIO12) were downloaded from the web http://www.worldclim.org/. Both range maps and environmental variables were inputted into ModestR (http://www.ipez.es/ModestR) and the output file from ModestR is a CSV file that was converted to a RData file.

References

Garca-Rosell, E., Guisande, C., Gonzlez-Dacosta, J., Heine, J., Pelayo-Villamil, P., Manjarrs-Hernndez, A., Vaamonde, A. & Granado-Lorencio, C. (2013) ModestR: a software tool for managing and analyzing species distribution map databases. Ecography, 36, 1202-1207.

Hijmans, R.J., Cameron, S.E., Parra, J.L., Jones, P.G. and Jarvis, A. (2005) Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology, 25, 1965-1978.

IUCN (2012) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. http://www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 17 October 2012.

Pelayo-Villamil, P., Guisande, C., Gonzlez-Vilas. L., Carvajal-Quintero. J.D., Jimnez-Segura, L.F., Garca-Rosell, E., Heine, J., Gonzlez-Dacosta, J., Manjarrs-Hernndez, A., Vaamonde, A., Granado-Lorencio, C. (2012) ModestR: Una herramienta infromtica para el estudio de los ecosistemas acuticos de Colombia. Actualidades Biolgicas, 34, 225-239.