rfishbase (version 5.0.0)

ecology: ecology

Description

ecology

Usage

ecology(
  species_list = NULL,
  fields = NULL,
  server = c("fishbase", "sealifebase"),
  version = "latest",
  db = NULL,
  ...
)

Value

a table of species ecology data

Arguments

species_list

A vector of scientific names (each element as "genus species"). If empty, a table for all fish will be returned.

fields

subset to these columns. (recommend to omit this and handle manually)

server

Either "fishbase" or "sealifebase".

version

a version string for the database. See available_releases() for details.

db

database connection, now deprecated.

...

additional arguments, currently ignored

Details

By default, will only return one entry (row) per species. Increase limit to get multiple returns for different stocks of the same species, though often data is either identical to the first or simply missing in the additional stocks.

References

http://www.fishbase.org/manual/english/fishbasethe_ecology_table.htm

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()

if (FALSE) {
ecology("Oreochromis niloticus")

## trophic levels and standard errors for a list of species
ecology(c("Oreochromis niloticus", "Salmo trutta"),
        fields=c("SpecCode", "FoodTroph", "FoodSeTroph", "DietTroph", "DietSeTroph"))
}
}