The taxlist package: managing plant taxonomic lists in R

By

Álvarez, Miguel
Luebert, Federico

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-05-02

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

6

Pages

1--10

Subjects

database , ecoinformatics , taxon concept , taxon view , Turboveg , vegtable

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e23635
eLocator: e23635

 

Abstract

Taxonomic lists are crucial elements of vegetation-plot databases and provide the links between original entries, reference taxon views and different taxon concepts. We introduce the R packagetaxlistin the context of object-oriented modelling for taxonomic lists. This package provides a data structure based on species lists in Turboveg, which is a software broadly used for the storage of vegetation-plot databases and implements functions for importing and handling them prior to statistical analysis. We also present a schema for relational databases, compatible withtaxlistobjects and recommend its use for handling diversity records.