vegdata (version 0.3.2)

vegdata-package: Functions to access data from vegetation databases and evaluate taxon names (with GermanSL).

Description

This package provides a set of functions to load data from (at present Turboveg and VegetWeb) databases. It is also possible to semi-automatically check and adapt scientific plant names (with appropriate reference lists) and to produce a syntaxonomic (rel/abs) frequency table.

encoding

UTF-8

Details

ll{ Package: vegdata Type: Package License: GPL version 2 or newer LazyLoad: yes } Use tv.veg to prepare data directly for further analyses. Set option tv.taxval to TRUE, if your database is referenced with taxonomic reference list GermanSL and you want to realize taxonomic check and adaptations.\ For more details see vignette('vegdata').

References

Jansen, Florian and Dengler, Juergen (2008) GermanSL - eine universelle taxonomische Referenzliste für Vegetationsdatenbanken, Tuexenia, 28, 239-253.

Jansen, F., Dengler, J (2011) Plant names in vegetation databases - a neglected source of bias, Journal of vegetation science, 21(6), 1179–1186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01209.x