Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2023 Nov;240(4):1355-1365.
doi: 10.1111/nph.18919. Epub 2023 May 11.

rWCVP: a companion R package for the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Matilda J M Brown  1 , Barnaby E Walker  1 , Nicholas Black  1 , Rafaël H A Govaerts  1 , Ian Ondo  1 , Robert Turner  1 , Eimear Nic Lughadha  1
Affiliations
Free article

rWCVP: a companion R package for the World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Matilda J M Brown et al. New Phytol. 2023 Nov.
Free article

Abstract

The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is an extremely valuable resource that is being used to address many fundamental and applied questions in plant science, conservation, ecology and evolution. However, databases of this size require data manipulation skills that pose a barrier to many potential users. Here, we present rWCVP, an open-source R package that aims to facilitate the use of the WCVP by providing clear, intuitive functions to execute many common tasks. These functions include taxonomic name reconciliation, geospatial integration, mapping and generation of multiple different summaries of the WCVP in both data and report format. We have included extensive documentation and tutorials, providing step-by-step guides that are accessible even to users with minimal programming experience. rWCVP is available on cran and GitHub.

Keywords: R package; World Checklist of Vascular Plants; plant distributions; plant diversity; toolbox.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

    1. Bachman SP, Nic Lughadha EM, Rivers MC. 2018. Quantifying progress toward a conservation assessment for all plants. Conservation Biology 32: 516-524.
    1. Chapman AD. 2005. Principles and methods of data cleaning. Copenhagen, Denmark: GBIF.
    1. Conti M, Nimis PL, Martellos S. 2021. Match algorithms for scientific names in floritaly, the portal to the flora of Italy. Plants 10: 974.
    1. Corlett RT. 2016. Plant diversity in a changing world: status, trends, and conservation needs. Plant Diversity 38: 10-16.
    1. Darbyshire I, Anderson S, Asatryan A, Byfield A, Cheek M, Clubbe C, Ghrabi Z, Harris T, Heatubun CD, Kalema J. 2017. Important plant areas: revised selection criteria for a global approach to plant conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 26: 1767-1800.

LinkOut - more resources