Download species occurrences from different sources

This function is wrapper of the occ function from the spocc package.

Usage

get_records(species_name, aoi_sf, providers = NULL)

Arguments

species_name: Species name.
aoi_sf: The spatial area of interest as an sf object.
providers: The providers argument allows you to specify multiple data sources (e.g., "gbif", "inat", etc.).

Value

An sf object

Examples


nc = st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))
#> Reading layer `nc' from data source 
#>   `/home/runner/work/_temp/Library/sf/shape/nc.shp' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
#> Simple feature collection with 100 features and 14 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: -84.32385 ymin: 33.88199 xmax: -75.45698 ymax: 36.58965
#> Geodetic CRS:  NAD27

records <- get_records("Lynx rufus", nc, providers = c("gbif",
"inat"))
#> Error in occ(query = species_name, from = providers, geometry = bbox,     has_coord = TRUE, limit = 1e+05): could not find function "occ"