BioTIMEr is an R package which gives you functionsto work with BioTIME communities and provides an subset ofthe BioTIME database.
BioTIME (the Global database of assemblage timeseries for quantifying and understanding biodiversity change) is aninternational network and an open access database, free to anyone,anywhere in the world to use for education, research, andconservation.
For a complete description of the database, please refer to our openaccess publication entitledBioTIME 2.0: Expanding andImproving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series.
install.packages("BioTIMEr")# CRAN versionremotes::github_install("bioTIMEHub/BioTIMEr")# dev versionMost BioTIME users are interested in standardising the extent of thedatasets. Here using the data subset included inside the package.
library(BioTIMEr)gridding(BTsubset_meta, BTsubset_data)A likely following step would be to rarefy communities to a commonsampling effort.
gridding(BTsubset_meta, BTsubset_data)|>resampling("ABUNDANCE")Under the terms of the BioTIME data user agreement, users whodownload data agree to cite all underlying DOIs.
Please also citeBioTIMEr by runningcitation(package = "BioTIMEr").
BioTIMEr in R doingcitation(package = 'BioTIMEr')