Mapping species distributions

Produces distribution maps for all species in the selection

map_species(
  scientific = NULL,
  canonical = NULL,
  genus = NULL,
  subfamily = NULL,
  life_form = NULL,
  assessment = NULL,
  range_size = NULL,
  model = "suitability",
  polygon = TRUE,
  iucn = TRUE
)

Arguments

scientific

a character vector of full scientific names including authorities, of the species of interest
canonical

a character vector of canonical names, of the species of interest.
genus

a character vector of genera names to select.
subfamily

a character vector of subfamily names to select.
life_form

a character vector of life forms to select.
assessment

a character vector of conservation assessment to select.
range_size

a vector of two numericals with the minimum and maximum range size (in square kilometres), to select.
model

character string. If “binary” presence absence per 100 km grid cell is plotted, if “suitability” the modelled habitat suitability is plotted.
polygon

logical. If TRUE, an outline of the range polygon is plotted.
iucn

logical. If TRUE a legend with the conservation assessment is added to the plot.

Value

a plot for each selected species .

Details

Modelled ranges are available for 542 species, range polygons for 2395 species. For species with model distribution, the range polygons are based on the models, otherwise on a convex hull around available occurrence records, or a 50 km buffer for species with less than 3 occurrence records available. See Zizka et al 2019 for methods.

Examples

map_species(canonical = "Aechmea mexicana")
#> OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile 
#> Source: "C:\Users\az64mycy\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp8Wiiib", layer: "ne_50m_land"
#> with 1420 features
#> It has 3 fields
#> Integer64 fields read as strings:  scalerank 
#> Regions defined for each Polygons
#> Warning: Ignoring unknown parameters: datum
#> Coordinate system already present. Adding new coordinate system, which will replace the existing one.