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Handle and Transform Taxonomic Information
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Handling Taxonomic Lists

Maintainer
Miguel Alvarez
Description

Handling taxonomic lists through objects of class taxlist. This package provides functions to import species lists from Turboveg (https://www.synbiosys.alterra.nl/turboveg/) and the possibility to create backups from resulting R-objects. Also quick displays are implemented as summary-methods.

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taxize
CRAN

Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

Maintainer
Zachary Foster
Description

Interacts with a suite of web APIs for taxonomic tasks, such as getting database specific taxonomic identifiers, verifying species names, getting taxonomic hierarchies, fetching downstream and upstream taxonomic names, getting taxonomic synonyms, converting scientific to common names and vice versa, and more.

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Scientific use cases
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dwctaxon
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Edit and Validate Darwin Core Taxon Data

Maintainer
Joel H. Nitta
Description

Edit and validate taxonomic data in compliance with Darwin Core standards (Darwin Core Taxon class https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#taxon).

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taxizedb

Tools for Working with Taxonomic Databases

Maintainer
Tamás Stirling
Description

Tools for working with taxonomic databases, including utilities for downloading databases, loading them into various SQL databases, cleaning up files, and providing a SQL connection that can be used to do SQL queries directly or used in dplyr.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Jin, J., & Yang, J. (2020). BDcleaner: A workflow for cleaning taxonomic and geographic errors in occurrence data archived in biodiversity databases. Global Ecology and Conservation, 21, e00852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00852
taxadb
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A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface

Maintainer
Carl Boettiger
Description

Creates a local database of many commonly used taxonomic authorities and provides functions that can quickly query this data.

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taxa
CRAN

Classes for Storing and Manipulating Taxonomic Data

Maintainer
Zachary Foster
Description

Provides classes for storing and manipulating taxonomic data. Most of the classes can be treated like base R vectors (e.g. can be used in tables as columns and can be named). Vectorized classes can store taxon names and authorities, taxon IDs from databases, taxon ranks, and other types of information. More complex classes are provided to store taxonomic trees and user-defined data associated with them.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Foster, Z. S. L., Chamberlain, S., & Grünwald, N. J. (2018). Taxa: An R package implementing data standards and methods for taxonomic data. F1000Research, 7, 272. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.14013.1
  2. Harvey, B. P., Kerfahi, D., Jung, Y., Shin, J.-H., Adams, J. M., & Hall-Spencer, J. M. (2020). Ocean acidification alters bacterial communities on marine plastic debris. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 161, 111749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111749
worrms
CRAN

World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Client

Maintainer
Bart Vanhoorne.
Description

Client for World Register of Marine Species (https://www.marinespecies.org/). Includes functions for each of the API methods, including searching for names by name, date and common names, searching using external identifiers, fetching synonyms, as well as fetching taxonomic children and taxonomic classification.

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Scientific use cases
  1. O’Hara, C. C., Afflerbach, J. C., Scarborough, C., Kaschner, K., & Halpern, B. S. (2017). Aligning marine species range data to better serve science and conservation. PLOS ONE, 12(5), e0175739. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175739
  2. Clegg, T., Ali, M., & Beckerman, A. P. (2018). The impact of intraspecific variation on food web structure. Ecology. https://doi.org./10.1002/ecy.2523
  3. Webb, T. J., Lines, A., & Howarth, L. M. (2020). Occupancy‐derived thermal affinities reflect known physiological thermal limits of marine species. Ecology and Evolution, 10(14), 7050–7061. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6407
  4. Webb, T. J., & Vanhoorne, B. (2020). Linking dimensions of data on global marine animal diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1814), 20190445. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0445
rgnparser
CRAN

Parse Scientific Names

Maintainer
Joel H. Nitta
Description

Parse scientific names using gnparser (https://github.com/gnames/gnparser), written in Go. gnparser parses scientific names into their component parts; it utilizes a Parsing Expression Grammar specifically for scientific names.

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wikitaxa
CRAN

Taxonomic Information from Wikipedia

Maintainer
Zachary Foster
Description

Taxonomic information from Wikipedia, Wikicommons, Wikispecies, and Wikidata. Functions included for getting taxonomic information from each of the sources just listed, as well performing taxonomic search.

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ritis
CRAN

Integrated Taxonomic Information System Client

Maintainer
Julia Blum
Description

An interface to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (https://www.itis.gov). Includes functions to work with the ITIS REST API methods (https://www.itis.gov/ws_description.html), as well as the Solr web service (https://www.itis.gov/solr_documentation.html).

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Scientific use cases
  1. Goring, S., Lacourse, T., Pellatt, M. G., & Mathewes, R. W. (2013). Pollen assemblage richness does not reflect regional plant species richness: a cautionary tale. Journal of Ecology, 101(5), 1137–1145. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12135