dismo (version 0.5-11)

gbif: Data from GBIF

Description

This functions downloads species occurence records from the GBIF data portal. You can download either a single species or an entire genus by using species='*'

Usage

gbif(genus, species="", geo=TRUE, sp=FALSE, removeZeros=TRUE, download=TRUE, getAlt=TRUE, feedback=3)

Arguments

genus

Character. genus name

species

Character. species name. Use '*' to download the entire genus

geo

Logical. If TRUE, only records that have a georeference (longitude and latitude values) will be downloaded

sp

Logical. If TRUE, geo will be set to TRUE and a SpatialPointsDataFrame will be returned

removeZeros

Logical. If TRUE, all records that have a latiude OR longitude of zero will be removed if geo==TRUE, or set to NA if geo==FALSE. If FALSE, only records that have a latiude AND longitude that

download

Logical. If TRUE, records will be downloaded, else only the number of records will be shown

getAlt

Logical. If TRUE, elevation data (4 character variables) will be processed into a single new numerical variable

feedback

Integer. Lower values give less feedback (0-no messages; 3-all messages)

Value

• data frame

References

http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/

Examples

#gbif('Batrachoseps', '*' , geo=F, down=F)
#gbif('Batrachoseps', '*' , geo=T, down=F)
#gbif('Batrachoseps', 'luciae', geo=T, down=F)
#g <- gbif('Batrachoseps', 'luciae', geo=T)
#plot(g$lon, g$lat)

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