Expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data.

ABSTRACT:

Premise

Data on plant distribution and diversity from natural history collections and taxonomic databases are increasingly becoming available online as exemplified by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Plants of the World Online (POWO) database. This growing accumulation of biodiversity information requires an advance in bioinformatic tools for accessing and processing the massive data for use in downstream science. We present herein expowo, an open-source package that facilitates extracting and using botanical data from POWO.

Methods and results

The expowo package is implemented in R and designed to handle the entire vascular plant tree of life. It includes functions to readily distill taxonomic and distributional information about all families, genera, or species of vascular

SUBMITTER: Zuanny DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11610411 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature