Searches in the List of Species of the Brazilian Flora 2020 database

Source: R/search_flora.R

Returns species scientific name lists from phytogeographic domain, state, life form and/or endemism status from the List of Species of the Brazilian Flora 2020 database

search_flora(
  domain = NULL,
  stateProvince = NULL,
  life_form = NULL,
  habitat = NULL,
  vegetation_type = NULL,
  endemism = NULL,
  force_update = FALSE
)

Arguments

domain

a domain in Mata Atlântica, Cerrado, Pantanal, Pampa, Amazônia
stateProvince

Two-letter code for Brazilian states (e.g. "MA")
life_form

character, search species with the following life forms
habitat

character, search species in the habitat options according to the FB2020
vegetation_type

character, filter by vegetation type according to the FB2020
endemism

logical, return species that are endemic or not from Brazil Defaults to NULL to return all species
force_update

Logical. Update the flora IPT database in cache?

Value

a data frame with taxon IDs, scientific name and binomial name without authors

Author

Andrea Sánchez-Tapia & Sara Mortara

Examples

# All endemic species from the caatinga in Pernambuco
if (FALSE) {
search_flora(domain = "Caatinga",
             state = "PE",
             endemism = TRUE)
}