gbif

From dismo v1.0-15 by Robert Hijmans

Data from GBIF

This function downloads species occurence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (http://www.gbif.org{GBIF}) data portal. You can download either a single species (if you append a '*' to the species name) or a subspecies of comparable level. You can download the data for an entire genus by using species='*'. Before using this function, please first check the GBIF http://data.gbif.org/terms.htm{data use agreement}.

Keywords: spatial

Usage

gbif(genus, species="", ext=NULL, args=NULL, geo=TRUE, sp=FALSE, 
   removeZeros=FALSE, download=TRUE, ntries=5, nrecs=300, start=1, end=Inf)

Arguments

genus: character. genus name
species: character. species name. Use '*' to download the entire genus. Append '*' to the species name to get all naming variants (e.g. with and witout species author name) and sub-taxa
ext: Extent object to limit the geographic extent of the records. An extent can be created using functions like drawExtent and extent
args: character. Additional arguments to refine the query. See query parameters in http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence for more details
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 latitude OR longitude of zero will be removed if geo==TRUE, or set to NA if geo==FALSE. If FALSE, only records that have a latitude AND longitude th
download: logical. If TRUE, records will be downloaded, else only the number of records will be shown
ntries: integer. How many times should the function attempt to download the data, if an invalid response is returned (perhaps because the GBIF server is very busy)
nrecs: integer. How many records to download in a single request (max is 300)?
start: integer. Record number from which to start requesting data
end: integer. Last record to request

Value

data frame

References

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

Examples

gbif('solanum', download=FALSE)
gbif('solanum', 'acaule', download=FALSE)

gbif('Batrachoseps', '' , down=FALSE)
gbif('Batrachoseps', 'luciae', down=FALSE)
g <- gbif('Batrachoseps', 'luciae', geo=TRUE)
plot(g$lon, g$lat)

gs <- gbif('Batrachoseps', 'luciae', sp=TRUE)
plot(gs)

Documentation reproduced from package dismo, version 1.0-15, License: GPL (>= 3)

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