rgbif: Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API

Scott Chamberlain, Damiano Oldoni, John Waller

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Abstract

Rgbif is an R package that provides a programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GBIF is a database of species occurrence records from sources all over the globe. Rgbif includes functions for searching for taxonomic names, retrieving information on data providers, getting species occurrence records, getting counts of occurrence records, and using the GBIF tile map service to make rasters summarizing huge amounts of data.
Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11-Apr-2022

Thematic List 2020

  • Data & infrastructure

Thematic list

  • Fauna
  • Flora

Free keywords

  • R
  • GBIF

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