Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database

Provides Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database. The BIEN database contains cleaned and standardized botanical data including occurrence, trait, plot and taxonomic data (See < https://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/> for more Information). This package provides functions that query the BIEN database by constructing and executing optimized SQL queries.

RBIEN

Tools for accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

News:

New license: We've updated the license on the BIEN data to a CC-BY license. If you are using the Github version of the R package, this change will be reflected when you use the function BIEN_metadata_citation(). A forthcoming publication will also detail this change (and other updates to associated data products and software).

Installing

To install the development version of BIEN from Github:

devtools::install_github("bmaitner/RBIEN")