rangeMaps {bRacatus}

rangeMaps

Description

Prepares range maps input by the user to be used as reference regions

Usage

rangeMaps(
  range,
  biogeo = "legend",
  native = "Extant (resident)",
  alien = "Introduced"
)

Arguments

range

SpatialPolygonsDataFrame

biogeo

character, name of the column containing information on biogeographic status of features

native

character, entries in biogeo column representing the native range of the species

alien

character, entries in biogeo column representing the alien range of the species

Value

This function returns a list containing three shapefiles derived from information supplied by the species range map in a shapefile format. "regs" includes all the features corresponding to regions where the species has been listed as present. "regs_native" includes all the features corresponding to regions where the species has been listed as native. And "regs_alien" includes all the features corresponding to regions where the species has been listed as alien.

Examples

range_map_reference_regions <- rangeMaps(Range_Phalanger_orientalis)