taxize (version 0.1.5)

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, silent = TRUE, parallel = FALSE,
    ...)

## S3 method for class 'iucn': iucn_status(x, ...)

Arguments

sciname
character; Scientific name. Should be cleand and in the format .
silent
logical; Make errors silent or not (when species not found).
parallel
logical; Search in parallel to speed up search. You have to register a parallel backend if TRUE. See e.g., doMC, doSNOW, etc.
...
Currently not used.
x
an iucn object as returned by iucn_summary.

Value

  • A list (for every species one entry) of lists with the following items:
  • statusRed List Category.
  • historyHistory of status, if available.
  • distrGeographic distribution, if available.
  • trendTrend of population size, if available.

See Also

iucn_status

Examples

Run this code
ia <- iucn_summary(c("Panthera uncia", "Lynx lynx"))
ia <- iucn_summary(c("Panthera uncia", "Lynx lynx", "aaa"))
# extract status
iucn_status(ia)
# extract other available information
ia[['Lynx lynx']]$history
ia[['Panthera uncia']]$distr
ia[[1]]$pop
ia[[2]]$trend

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