bromeliad 1.0-2

A data package with distribution data for 3,272 bromeliaceae species across tropical America.

Included data

The package includes five data files:

  1. taxonomy traits - a data.frame with taxonomy, traits and conservation assessment for the included species.
  2. all_ranges - a simple features object containing range polygons for 3,272 bromeliaceae species.
  3. model_binary - a list of presence/absence rasters, for 541 species for which the ranges were estimated based on climate suitability models
  4. model_ensemble - a list of rasters with habitat suitability, for 541 species for which the ranges were estimated based on climate suitability models
  5. digitized_records - a data.frame with 1,207 point locations of 920 species type specimens, georeferenced from the literature for this package

Installation

The package can be installed from github using devtools::install_github

library(devtools)

install_github("idiv-biodiversity/bromeliad")

library(bromeliad)

Documentation

The pacakge also includes some convinieince functions to select taxa and visualize species ranges and diversity. A vignette describing how to select individual taxa and visualize species distributions and diversity patterns is available here, the corresponding paper here.

Contribute

If you want to contribute with new species or corrections, please contact the maintainer of the package.

Licence

The package and data are available under a CC-BY license.

Citation

If you use the data, please cite the package as Zizka A, Azevedo J, Leme E, NEves B, Costa AFC, Caceres D & Zizka, G (2019) Biogeography and conservation status of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae). Diversity and Distributions, 26(2):183-195. DOI:10.1111/ddi.13004.