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atlanticr

The tropical and subtropical forests along the coast and interior of South America used to have one of the largest forests in the world – the Atlantic Forest – with more than 1.6 million km² spanning Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. The ATLANTIC includes a series of Data Papers about the community composition, distribution of plants and animals, and environmental characteristics from the Atlantic Forest. These papers are a fundamental tool for both scientists and policy makers.

The goal of this package is to provide data from the ATLANTIC, a series of data papers by Ecology on biodiversity data from the Atlantic Forest. Currently, there are 17 data sets: nine about vertebrates, two about vertebrate traits, two about invertebrates, three about interactions animal-plant, one about plant, and one about spatial data.

Installation

You can install the development version of atlanticr from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pkg_install("mauriciovancine/atlanticr")

Datasets

Dataset currently included in the package are summarized below; see individual Articles for data and source details.

Vertebrates

  • atlantic_amphibians 🐸 ATLANTIC AMPHIBIANS: a data set of amphibian communities from the Atlantic Forests of South America
  • atlantic_bats 🦇 ATLANTIC BATS: a data set of bat communities from the Atlantic Forests of South America
  • atlantic_birds 🦜 ATLANTIC BIRDS: a data set of bird species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
  • atlantic_camtraps 📸 ATLANTIC-CAMTRAPS: a dataset of medium and large terrestrial mammal communities in the Atlantic Forest of South America
  • atlantic_mammals 🐱 ATLANTIC MAMMALS: a data set of assemblages of medium- and large-sized mammals of the Atlantic Forest of South America
  • atlantic_nonvolant_mammals 🐭 Non-volant mammals from the Upper Paraná River Basin: a data set from a critical region for conservation in Brazil
  • atlantic_primates 🐒 ATLANTIC-PRIMATES: a dataset of communities and occurrences of primates in the Atlantic Forests of South America
  • atlantic_small_mammal 🐭 Atlantic small-mammal: a dataset of communities of rodents and marsupials of the Atlantic forests of South America
  • atlantic_small_mammal_abundance 🐭🔢 Abundance of small mammals in the Atlantic Forest (ASMAF): a data set for analyzing tropical community patterns

Vertebrate traits

  • atlantic_bird_traits 🐦📏 ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS: a data set of bird morphological traits from the Atlantic forests of South America
  • atlantic_mammal_traits 🦇📏 ATLANTIC MAMMAL TRAITS: a data set of morphological traits of mammals in the Atlantic Forest of South America

Invertebrates

  • atlantic_ants 🐜 ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ant communities from the Atlantic Forests of South America
  • atlantic_butterflies 🦋 Atlantic butterflies: a data set of fruit-feeding butterfly communities from the Atlantic forests

Animal-plants interaction

  • atlantic_frugivory 🐦🍒 Atlantic frugivory: a plant–frugivore interaction data set for the Atlantic Forest
  • atlantic_pollination 🐦🌺 ATLANTIC POLLINATION: a data set of flowers and interaction with nectar-feeding vertebrates from the Atlantic Forest
  • atlantic_flower_invertebrate_interactions 🐝💮 Atlantic flower–invertebrate interactions: A data set of occurrence and frequency of floral visits

Plants

  • atlantic_epiphytes 🌱 ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Spatial

  • atlantic_spatial 🌎 ATLANTIC SPATIAL: a dataset of landscape, topographic, hydrologic and anthropogenic metrics for the Atlantic Forest

How to provide feedback

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