spidR (version 1.0.2)

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)

Arguments

tax

A taxon name or vector with taxa names.

order

Order taxa names alphabetically or keep as in tax.

Value

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

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, S., Cernecka, L., Wolff, J., Mammola, S., Cardoso, P., Lowe, E., Fukushima, C.S., Birkhofer, K. & Herberstein, M.E. (2021). The world spider trait database. Masaryk University, Brno, URL: https://spidertraits.sci.muni.cz

Examples

# NOT RUN {
records("Pardosa hyperborea")
records(tax = c("Pardosa hyperborea", "Anapistula"), order = TRUE)
# }