countries

Extracts the names or ISO codes of countries of occurrence of a species based on either records or predicted distribution.

Includes algorithms to facilitate the assessment of extinction risk of species according to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature, see <https://www.iucn.org/> for more information) red list criteria.

Vasco V. Branco

IUCN Redlisting Tools

Pedro Cardoso

countries function

<dl><dt>spData</dt>
<dd>One of three options: 1) matrix of longitude and latitude (two columns) of each occurrence record; 2) matrix of easting and northing (two columns, e.g. UTM) of each occurrence record in meters; 3) RasterLayer object of predicted distribution (0/1 values).</dd>
<dt>zone</dt>
<dd>UTM zone if data is in metric units.</dd>
<dt>ISO</dt>
<dd>Outputs either country names (FALSE) or ISO codes (TRUE).</dd></dl>

Arguments

Countries of occurrence. — countries

<dl>

<dt>spData</dt>
<dd>One of three options: 1) matrix of longitude and latitude (two columns) of each occurrence record; 2) matrix of easting and northing (two columns, e.g. UTM) of each occurrence record in meters; 3) RasterLayer object of predicted distribution (0/1 values).</dd>


<dt>zone</dt>
<dd>UTM zone if data is in metric units.</dd>


<dt>ISO</dt>
<dd>Outputs either country names (FALSE) or ISO codes (TRUE).</dd>

</dl>

countries: Countries of occurrence.

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