The World Checklist of Vascular Plants: distributions

A dataset containing the distribution data from the WCVP, mapped to the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD)

Usage

wcvp_distributions

Format

A data frame with 1,950,339 rows and 11 variables:

plant_locality_id

Sequential number.

plant_name_id

World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) identifier

continent_code_l1

WGSRPD Level 1 code.

continent

WGSRPD Level 1 name.

region_code_l2

WGSRPD Level 2 code.

region

WGSRPD Level 2 name

area_code_l3

WGSRPD Level 3 code

area

WGSRPD name

introduced

0 if native; 1 if introduced

extinct

1 if extinct; 0 if extant

location_doubtful

1 if doubtful; 0 otherwise

Source

http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/wcvp.zip