atlantic_small_mammal - Atlantic small-mammal: a dataset of communities of rodents and marsupials of the Atlantic forests of South America

Dataset used

• atlantic_small_mammal

Introduction

The atlantic_small_mammal dataset contains

Data exploration

Citations

Bovendorp et al. 2017. Atlantic small-mammal: a dataset of communities of rodents and marsupials of the Atlantic forests of South America. Ecology, 98(8), 2226-2226. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1893

How we processed the raw data

Download data from Ecology

# download
# download data from https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.1893

# unzip
unzip(zipfile = "data-raw/ecy1893-sup-0002-datas1.zip", exdir = "data-raw")

Data cleaning

# import
atlantic_small_mammal_sites <- data.table::fread("data-raw/ATLANTIC_SM_Study_Site.csv", encoding = "Latin-1") %>%
    tibble::as_tibble() %>%
    janitor::clean_names()

atlantic_small_mammal_species <- data.table::fread("data-raw/ATLANTIC_SM_Capture.csv", encoding = "Latin-1") %>%
    tibble::as_tibble() %>%
    janitor::clean_names()

atlantic_small_mammal_references <- data.table::fread("data-raw/ATLANTIC_SM_Reference.csv", encoding = "Latin-1") %>%
    tibble::as_tibble() %>%
    janitor::clean_names() %>%
    dplyr::mutate(reference_number = as.character(reference_number))

# join
atlantic_small_mammal <- atlantic_small_mammal_sites %>%
    dplyr::left_join(atlantic_small_mammal_species) %>%
    dplyr::left_join(atlantic_small_mammal_references)