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infinitylists: A Shiny application and R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists
Thomas Mesaglio1,2,3, Fonti Kar1, Hervé Sauquet1,3
1Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia.
Premise:
Biodiversity researchers often need to answer the question: "Which species of taxon X have been documented in (or near) spatial polygon Y?" Online databases with billions of occurrence records, including vouchered specimens and citizen science records, can provide the answer; however, quick spatial processing of huge biodiversity datasets can be difficult, and many general-purpose tools are constrained by dataset size.
Methods And Results:
infinitylists is a Shiny application and R package that allows users to generate species checklists for a user-specified taxon and area. It downloads taxon-country datasets (e.g., Madagascan geckos) from biodiversity data providers and uses an open source, column-oriented data file for fast retrieval and visualization. Available as a mobile-friendly web tool with preloaded data, it can also be run locally in R for very flexible applications.
Conclusions:
infinitylists is an easy-to-use tool with applications including supplementing survey data, planning collecting expeditions, and informing gap-filling. infinitylists is a complementary tool to existing databases to help field ecologists and naturalists globally.
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