BIEN_occurrence_country {BIEN}

Extract species occurrence records by country.

Description

BIEN_occurrence_country extracts occurrences records for the specified country/countries.

Usage

BIEN_occurrence_country(
  country = NULL,
  country.code = NULL,
  cultivated = FALSE,
  new.world = NULL,
  all.taxonomy = FALSE,
  native.status = FALSE,
  natives.only = TRUE,
  observation.type = FALSE,
  political.boundaries = FALSE,
  collection.info = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

country

A single country or a vector of country.

country.code

A single country code or a vector of country codes equal in length to the vector of states/province codes.

cultivated

Return known cultivated records as well? Default is FALSE.

new.world

NULL (The default) returns global records, TRUE returns only New World, and FALSE only Old World.

all.taxonomy

Return all taxonomic information? This includes the raw data as well as the "scrubbed" data.

native.status

Return information on introduction status? The default value is FALSE. A value of TRUE also returns additional information on introduction status.

natives.only

Exclude detected introduced species? Default is TRUE.

observation.type

Return information on type of observation (i.e. specimen vs. plot)? The default value is FALSE.

political.boundaries

Return information on political boundaries for an observation? The default value is FALSE.

collection.info

Return additional information about collection and identification? The default value is FALSE.

...

Additional arguments passed to internal functions.

Value

Dataframe containing occurrence records for the specified country.

Note

US FIA coordinates have been fuzzed and swapped, for more details see: https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/tools-data/spatial/Policy/index.php

Political division (or political division code) spelling needs to be exact and case-sensitive, see BIEN_metadata_list_political_names for a list of political divisions and associated codes.

See Also

Other occurrence functions: BIEN_occurrence_box(), BIEN_occurrence_county(), BIEN_occurrence_family(), BIEN_occurrence_genus(), BIEN_occurrence_records_per_species(), BIEN_occurrence_sf(), BIEN_occurrence_species(), BIEN_occurrence_state()

Examples

## Not run: 
BIEN_occurrence_country("Cuba")
country_vector<-c("Cuba","Bahamas")
BIEN_occurrence_country(country_vector)
## End(Not run)