Florabr: An R package to explore and spatialize species distribution using Flora e Funga do Brasil.

ABSTRACT:

Premise

The Flora e Funga do Brasil project is the most comprehensive effort to reliably document Brazilian plant and fungal diversity. It involves the collaborative work of hundreds of taxonomists, integrating detailed and standardized morphological descriptions, nomenclatural status, and geographic distribution information of plants, algae, and fungi collected throughout Brazil. Despite the extensive information available, managing the information from the Flora e Funga do Brasil website poses certain challenges.

Methods and results

florabr is an R package developed to facilitate the exploration and geographical analysis of species information derived from the Flora e Funga do Brasil. Unique to florabr is its ability to interact with the latest, or any other version of the

SUBMITTER: Trindade WCF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11610413 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature