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records

Download taxon records from GBIF.


Description

Downloads species or higher taxon data from GBIF and outputs non-duplicate records with geographical coordinates.

Usage

records(taxon)

Arguments

taxon

Taxon name.

Details

As always when using data from multiple sources the user should be careful and check if records "make sense". This can be done by either ploting them in a map (e.g. using red::map.draw()) or using red::outliers().

Value

A data.frame with longitude and latitude, plus species names if taxon is above species.

Examples

records("Nephila senegalensis")

red

IUCN Redlisting Tools

v1.5.0
GPL-3
Authors
Pedro Cardoso
Initial release
2020-05-04

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