CoordinateCleaner - Automated Cleaning of Occurrence Records from Biological Collections

Automated flagging of common spatial and temporal errors in biological and paleontological collection data, for the use in conservation, ecology and paleontology. Includes automated tests to easily flag (and exclude) records assigned to country or province centroid, the open ocean, the headquarters of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, urban areas or the location of biodiversity institutions (museums, zoos, botanical gardens, universities). Furthermore identifies per species outlier coordinates, zero coordinates, identical latitude/longitude and invalid coordinates. Also implements an algorithm to identify data sets with a significant proportion of rounded coordinates. Especially suited for large data sets. The reference for the methodology is: Zizka et al. (2019) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13152>.

Last updated 8 months ago

11.07 score 79 stars 3 packages 240 scripts 1.6k downloads

sampbias - Evaluating Geographic Sampling Bias in Biological Collections

Evaluating the biasing impact of geographic features such as airports, cities, roads, rivers in datasets of coordinates based biological collection datasets, by Bayesian estimation of the parameters of a Poisson process. Enables also spatial visualization of sampling bias and includes a set of convenience functions for publication level plotting. Also available as shiny app.

Last updated 9 months ago

5.20 score 32 stars 25 scripts 192 downloads

conserveR - Identifying Conservation Prioritization Methods Based on Data Availability

Helping biologists to choose the most suitable approach to link their research to conservation. After answering few questions on the data available, geographic and taxonomic scope, 'conserveR' ranks existing methods for conservation prioritization and systematic conservation planning by suitability. The methods data base of 'conserveR' contains 133 methods for conservation prioritization based on a systematic review of > 12,000 scientific publications from the fields of spatial conservation prioritization, systematic conservation planning, biogeography and ecology.

Last updated 3 years ago

3.60 score 8 stars 159 downloads