Retrieve Species data from GBIF — GBIF

This function is a wrapper to get records from GBIF using rgbif and return a data.frame ready to be used in caretSDM.

Usage

GBIF_data(s, file = NULL, as_df = FALSE, ...)

s: character vector of species names.
file: character with file to save the output. If not informed, data will not be saved on folder.
as_df: Should the output be a dataframe? Default is FALSE, returning a occurrences object.
...: Arguments to pass on rgbif::occ_data().

A data.frame with species occurrences data, or an occurrences object if as_df = FALSE.

https://www.gbif.org

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## Select species names:
#s <- c("Araucaria angustifolia", "Salminus brasiliensis")

## Run function:
#oc <- GBIF_data(s)