Retrieve Species data from 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, ...)

Arguments

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().

Value

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

References

https://www.gbif.org

Author

Luíz Fernando Esser (luizesser@gmail.com) https://luizfesser.wordpress.com

Examples

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

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