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Get native range dataset from aquamaps.org given latin name

Source: R/scrape.R
nativerange.Rd

aquamaps.org provides native range data downloads on a per species basis and this function scrapes the website for this information and returns it as a dataframe

Usage

nativerange(latinname = default_species(), identifier)

Arguments

latinname

a character vector with the latin name for the species

identifier

aquamaps.org sometimes provide several internal identifiers for the same latin name, if missing the first match will be used, but this can be overridden by using this parameter...

Value

dplyr layouted data frame with lat, long, native range p-value (0..1) and species name

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
native_range_df <- nativerange("Gadus morhua")
native_range_df <- nativerange("Sphyraena sphyraena")
} # }