Environmental data for GIFT checklists

Retrieve environmental data associated to each GIFT checklists. Sources of environmental variables can come from raster layers or from shape files (miscellaneous). Users need to define what variables they are interested in and then ask for a set of summary statistics (in case of raster layers).

Usage

GIFT_env(
  entity_ID = NULL,
  miscellaneous = if (is.null(rasterlayer)) "area" else NULL,
  rasterlayer = NULL,
  sumstat = "mean",
  GIFT_version = "latest",
  api = "https://gift.uni-goettingen.de/api/extended/"
)

Arguments

entity_ID

A vector defining the ID of the lists to retrieve. NULL by default, in that case, every list from GIFT is retrieved.

miscellaneous

character vector or list specifying the miscellaneous data to retrieve. . A list of all miscellaneous layers for which precomputed information exists in the database can be viewed in the output table returned by GIFT_env_meta_misc().

rasterlayer

character vector or list specifying the raster data to retrieve. A list of all raster layers for which precomputed information exists in the database can be viewed in the output table returned by GIFT_env_meta_raster().

sumstat

Vector or list indicating the desired summary statistics out of c("min", "q05", "q10", "q20", "q25", "q30", "q40", "med", "q60", "q70", "q75", "q80", "q90", "q95", "max", "mean", "sd", "modal", "unique_n", "H", "n") used to aggregate the information coming from the raster layers. If sumstat is a vector, the same summary statistics are used for all raster layers. If sumstat is a list, the first element defines the summary statistics for the first raster layer, the second for the second and so on.

Important note
Some summary statistics may not be informative depending on the environmental layer you ask for. For example, it is not relevant to retrieve the mean of soil classes for a polygon. The mode or Shannon index are more suitable in that case.

GIFT_version

character string defining the version of the GIFT database to use. The function retrieves by default the latest stable version. If set to beta, the most up-to-date version which is still subject to changes and edits is used.

api

character string defining from which API the data will be retrieved.

Value

A data frame with the environmental values per polygon (entity_ID).

Details

The columns of the data.frame are the following:

entity_ID - Identification number of the polygon
geo_entity - Name of the polygon
The other columns relate to the environmental variables the user asked for.

References

 Denelle, P., Weigelt, P., & Kreft, H. (2023). GIFT—An R package to
 access the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits. Methods in Ecology
 and Evolution, 14, 2738-2748.
 https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14213

 Weigelt, P, König, C, Kreft, H. GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and
 Traits for macroecology and biogeography. J Biogeogr. 2020; 47: 16– 43.
 https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13623

Examples

# \donttest{
ex <- GIFT_env(entity_ID = c(1,5),
               miscellaneous = c("perimeter", "biome"),
               rasterlayer = c("mn30_grd", "wc2.0_bio_30s_01"),
               sumstat = list(c("mean", "med"), "max"))
#> You are asking for the latest stable version of GIFT which is 3.2.
# }