tax {vegdata}R Documentation

Query of taxonomic refernce list including concept synonomy.

Description

Input is either species number, shortletter (7 characters) or full (exact!) species name.

Usage

tax(x, refl='Germansl 1.1', tv_home, syn = FALSE, tax = FALSE, concept = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x Species number, lettercode or species name
tv_home Path to Turboveg installation
refl Taxonomic reference list
syn Print also possible synonyms for shortletters.
tax Load tax.dbf instead of species.dbf
concept Name of alternatice taxon view file in refrence list directory
... Other attributes

Details

concept: GermanSL i a list with a single taxon view according to the standard list of the different group (e.g Wisskirchen and Haeupler for higher plants). Nevertheless a hugh number of synonyms is included which allows in many cases the transformation into different concepts. For illustration the concept of Armeria maritima from Korneck 1996 is included, which accepts e.g. Armeria maritima ssp. bottendorfensis.

Author(s)

Florian Jansen jansen@uni-greifswald.de

See Also

tv.taxval

Examples

## Not run: 
tax{27} 
## End(Not run)
tax(27, sysPath=TRUE)
tax(20583, tax=TRUE, sysPath=TRUE)
tax(20583, concept='korneck1996', sysPath=TRUE)

[Package vegdata version 0.1.1 Index]