RBGKew / BIFloraExplorer

A taxonomic, genetic and ecological data resource for the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland

BIFloraExplorer

The goal of BIFloraExplorer is to present an up to date trait repository and species list for all vascular plants currently extant in Britain and Ireland.

Information about the dataset

The dataset can also be downloaded from the EIDC (https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/9f097d82-7560-4ed2-af13-604a9110cf6d), where a detailed description of this dataset is included. The EIDC hosted version is static and will not be updated. All updates will be contained within the development version on this GitHub page.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("RBGKew/BIFloraExplorer")

Example

The data allows a new insights into current species trends.

library(BIFloraExplorer)

summary(main$StaceIV_nativity)

##                          ?N Arch-colonist    Arch-cultd  Arch-denizen 
##            69            61            61            40            80 
##             N    Neo-casual      Neo-natd      Neo-surv     Neonative 
##          1407           260           936           309             4

This allows a closer look at how the flora is developing.