vegdata (version 0.3.2)

tax: Query of taxonomic reference list including concept synonomy.

Description

Input is either species number (integer), shortletter (7 characters) or full (exact!) species name.

Usage

tax(x, refl, verbose = FALSE, syn = FALSE, concept = NULL, sysPath = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

Species number, lettercode or species name

refl

Taxonomic reference list

verbose

Load tax.dbf with additional taxonomic information (e.g. Secundum) instead of species.dbf

syn

Prints also synonyms for shortletters.

concept

Name of alternatice taxon view file within the reference list directory.

sysPath

A small example reference list for dataset elbaue is available in the installation path of the package.

...

Other attributes

Details

concept: GermanSL is a list with a single taxon view according to the standard lists of the different taxon groups (e.g Wisskirchen and Haeupler for higher plants, see). Nevertheless a hugh number of synonyms is included which allows in many cases the transformation into different concepts. For illustration the concept of Armeria maritima from Korneck 1996 is included, which accepts e.g. Armeria maritima ssp. bottendorfensis.

References

Jansen, F. and Dengler, J. (2008) GermanSL - eine universelle taxonomische Referenzliste f"ur Vegetationsdatenbanken. Tuexenia, 28, 239-253.

See Also

package vegdata

Examples

## Turboveg installation needed
tax(27)
tax('Achillea millefolium')
tax('ACHIMILL')