Countries and associated classification of botanical divisions according to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). This dataset provides the tabular look-up table with multilingual names for all botanical regions recognized by the standard.
Usage
data(botregions)Format
A data.frame with the following columns:
- country
Character. Botanical Country names (Level 3)
- botanical_division
Character. Basic Recording Unit names (Level 4)
- continent
Character. Continental level names (Level 1)
- country_EN, country_ES, country_FR, country_PT
Character. Botanical Country names in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
- botanical_division_EN, botanical_division_ES, botanical_division_FR, botanical_division_PT
Character. Basic Recording Unit names in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
- continent_EN, continent_ES, continent_FR, continent_PT
Character. Continental names in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
Source
https://www.tdwg.org/standards/wgsrpd/
Brummitt, R.K. (2001). World Geographic Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, Edition 2. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(aRboretum)
data(botregions)
head(botregions)
# Show botanical divisions in South America (Portuguese names)
subset(botregions, continent_EN == "South America",
select = c(botanical_division_PT, country_PT))
# Count botanical countries by continent
table(botregions$continent_EN)
} # }