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This package provides a set of functions to load data from vegetation databases (at present Turboveg and vegetweb.de). Taxa can be (semi-)automatically be checked and adapted depending the scientific question. For this a hierachical taxonomic reference list is needed.
| Package: | vegdata |
| Type: | Package |
| License: | GPL version 2 or newer |
| LazyLoad: | yes |
Use tv.veg to prepare data directly for further analyses. Set option taxval to TRUE, if your database is referenced with GermanSL or equivalent taxonomic reference list and you want to realize taxonomic checks and adaptations.\
For more details see vignette('vegdata').
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
Jansen, Florian and Dengler, Juergen (2008) GermanSL - eine universelle taxonomische Referenzliste fuer Vegetationsdatenbanken, Tuexenia, 28, 239-253.