Description
Species trait data from many different sources, including sequence data from NCBI, plant trait data from BETYdb, invasive species data from the Global Invasive Species Database and EOL, Traitbank data from EOL, Coral traits data from http://coraltraits.org, nativity status (Flora Europaea or ITIS), and Birdlife International.
Get it at CRAN - Package traits or dev version at GitHub at GitHub - ropensci/traits: R package for accessing species trait data from multiple databases
We broke out a bunch of functions that were in taxize that dealt with trait related data. In addition, we’re adding more data sources as they become available or come to our attention.
Data sources so far:
- BETYdb -
betydb_ - National Center for Biotechnology Information - NCBI -
ncbi_ - Global Invasive Species Database - GISD -
g_ - Encyclopedia of Life Invasive Species -
eol_ - Encyclopedia of Life Traitbank -
traitbank_ - Coral Traits Database -
coral_ - Flora Europaea -
fe_ - Birdlife International -
birdlife_ - LEDA Traitbase -
leda_