speciesgeocodeR (version 1.0-4)

WwfLoad: Load the WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions

Description

Downloads a shape-file containing the terrestrial ecoregions as defined by Olson et al. 2001 from worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-theworld, unpacks them and loads the into R.

Usage

WwfLoad(x = "")

Arguments

x

the path to the folder where the shapes should be saved. If set to "" the files are saved to the working directory.

Value

An object of the class SpatialPolygonsDataframe

References

Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E. ,Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powel, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., Damico, J. A.,Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., and Kassem, K.R. 2001 Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: A new map of life on earth. BioScience, 51(11):933--938.

http://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world

Examples

## Not run: 
# wwf_eco <- WwfLoad()
# plot(wwf_eco)
# names(wwf_eco)## End(Not run)