taxize (version 0.0.5)

iucn_summary: Get a summary from the IUCN Red List.

Description

Get a summary from the IUCN Red List (http://www.iucnredlist.org/).

Usage

iucn_summary(sciname)

Arguments

sciname

character; Scientific name.

Value

• A list (for every species one entry) of lists with the following items:
• status
  Red List Category.
• history
  History of status.
• distr
  Geographic distribution.
• pop
  Population size estimates.
• trend
  Trend of population size.

Examples

ia <- iucn_summary(c("Panthera uncia", "Lynx lynx"))
ia <- iucn_summary(c("Panthera uncia", "Lynx lynx", "aaa"))
# extract status
ldply(ia, function(x) x$status)
laply(ia, function(x) x$status)
ia[['Lynx lynx']]$history
ia[['Panthera uncia']]$distr
ia[[1]]$pop
ia[[2]]$trend