The microgeo: an R package rapidly displays the biogeography of soil microbial community traits on maps.

ABSTRACT: Many R packages provide statistical approaches for elucidating the diversity of soil microbes, yet they still struggle to visualize microbial traits on a geographical map. This creates challenges in interpreting microbial biogeography on a regional scale, especially when the spatial scale is large or the distribution of sampling sites is uneven. Here, we developed a lightweight, flexible, and user-friendly R package called microgeo. This package integrates many functions involved in reading, manipulating, and visualizing geographical boundary data; downloading spatial datasets; and calculating microbial traits and rendering them onto a geographical map using grid-based visualization, spatial interpolation, or machine learning. Using this R package, users can visualize any trait calculated

SUBMITTER: Li C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11212663 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature