arakno (version 1.3.1)

records: Get coordinate data from GBIF and WST.

Description

Downloads coordinate data from records in GBIF and the World Spider Trait database.

Usage

records(tax, order = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Value

A data.frame with species name, longitude, latitude, source database and reference.

Arguments

tax

A taxon name or vector with taxa names.

order

Order taxa names alphabetically or keep as in tax.

verbose

Display information as data are retrieved.

Details

Outputs non-duplicate records with geographical (long, lat) coordinates. As always when using data from multiple sources the user should be careful and check if records "make sense" before using them.

References

Pekar et al. (2021). The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database, 2021: baab064. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab064

Examples

if (FALSE) {
records("Pardosa hyperborea")
records(tax = c("Pardosa hyperborea", "Anapistula"), order = TRUE)
}