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Marine data

biooracle.Rd

Marine data from Bio-Oracle

Usage

bio_oracle(path, var, stat, benthic=FALSE, 
    depth="Mean", time="Present", rcp, ...)

Arguments

path

character. Path for storing the downloaded data. See geodata_path

var

character. Variable of interest. One of 'Calcite', 'Chlorophyll', 'Cloud.cover', 'Current.Velocity', 'Diffuse.attenuation', 'Dissolved.oxygen', 'Ice.cover', 'Ice.thickness', 'Iron', 'Light.bottom', 'Nitrate', 'Par', 'pH', 'Phosphate', 'Phytoplankton', 'Primary.productivity', 'Salinity', 'Silicate', 'Temperature'

stat

character. Statistic of interest. One of 'Lt.max', 'Lt.min', 'Max', 'Mean', 'Min', 'Range'. It should be "" if var is "pH"

benthic

logical. If FALSE surface data are returned

depth

character. Either "Min", "Mean", or "Max". Only relevant if benthic is TRUE

time

character. Either "Present", "2050" or "2100"

rcp

character. Either "26", "45", "60", or "85"

...

additional arguments passed to download.file

Value

SpatRaster

References

Assis, J., Tyberghein, L., Bosh, S., Verbruggen, H., Serrão, E.A., & De Clerck, O. (2017). Bio-ORACLE v2.0: Extending marine data layers for bioclimatic modelling. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 277-284.

See also

https://bio-oracle.org/

Examples

# \donttest{
# this is a large download
x <- bio_oracle(path=tempdir(), "Salinity", "Max", 
    benthic=TRUE, depth="Mean", time="Present")
# }