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climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data
Journal of vegetation science, Vol.34(6), e13215
2023
Abstract
Understanding the relationship between climate and vegetation requires climate data to be linked with ecological data, including habitat types and vegetation mapping. Our new R package climenv allows researchers to efficiently acquire, extract and visualise data sets that are commonly used by researchers to quantify the climatic envelope of vegetation. climenv offers integrated downloading and processing capabilities for three globally recognised data sets: WorldClim 2, CHELSA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data. The package allows users to easily download and extract these data sets for single and multi-geospatial polygon and point data sets, facilitating studies that explore the relationship between vegetation and climate. Furthermore, climenv allows users to plot traditional Holdridge life zone classification, Walter–Lieth climate diagrams and new customised plots, which combine aspects of both these systems with other biologically relevant climate variables. By enhancing the usability and flexibility of these data sets, climenv helps to explore the intricacies of the relationships between climate and vegetation. Our package is accessible from CRAN (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=climenv) or GitHub (https://github.com/jamestsakalos/climenv).
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- Title
- climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data
- Authors/Creators
- James Lee Tsakalos - Università di CamerinoMartin Ross Smith - Durham UniversityFederico Luebert - University of ChileLadislav Mucina - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Journal of vegetation science, Vol.34(6), e13215
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- University of Camerino (Italy) LIFE MODERn(NEC) project (LIFE20 GIE/IT/000091) Iluka Chair in Vegetation Science and Biogeography at the Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
- Identifiers
- 991005621766207891
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Authors.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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