What it does
Search species occurences across a single or many data sources.
How to use it
Enter a species scientific name, be careful that the tool is case sensitive. Eg : Canis lupus.
Select one or more data source. It can be any combination of gbif, bison, inat, ebird, ecoengine and/or vertnet.
Output
The tool returns a table with the species observations available in the chosen databases.
Output file will have the following attributes : name, longituden latitude, prov, data, key.
prov is the datasouce and key the occurence corresponding unique identifier.
How it works
This tool use the spocc R package (Spocc::occ) :
A programmatic interface to many species occurrence data sources, including :
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility : GBIF https://www.gbif.org/
- USGSs' Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation : BISON https://bison.usgs.gov/#home
- iNaturalist : iNat https://www.inaturalist.org/,
- eBird https://ebird.org/home
- Berkeley Ecoinformatics Engine : EcoEngine https://ecoengine.berkeley.edu/
- VertNet http://vertnet.org/
- Integrated Digitized Biocollections : iDigBio https://www.idigbio.org/
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System : OBIS https://obis.org/
- Atlas of Living Australia : ALA https://www.ala.org.au/.
Includes functionality for retrieving species occurrence data, and combining those data.
Sources
Original source : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spocc/index.html
Reference manual : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spocc/spocc.pdf