Download species' temporal trend in conservation status from the IUCN RedList online database (No longer supported)

Get species conservation status over time (i.e. from 1980 to the present date available) from the IUCN website(https://www.iucnredlist.org/) for one or more species.

Usage

lets.iucn.his(input, count = FALSE)

Arguments

input: character vector with one or more species names, or an object of class PresenceAbsence.
count: Logical, if TRUE a counting window will open.

Value

A data frame with the species names in the first column rows and the years (1980 - present) in the remaining columns, the code represents the species' conservation status (see the IUCN RedList website for details). If species do not have information (i.e. have not been evaluated), the result is: NE (Not evaluated).

Codes and categories:

EX: Extinct

EW: Extinct in the Wild

VU: Vulnerable

EN: Endangered

CR: Critically Endangered

LC: Least Concern

NT: Near Threatened

DD: Data Deficient

CT: Commercially Threatened

IN: Indeterminate

IK: Insufficiently Known

LR: Lower Risk

RA: Rare

Details

Note that you must be connected to the internet to use this function.

Author

Bruno Vilela

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Single species
lets.iucn.his("Panthera onca")

# Multiple species
sp <- c("Rhincodon typus", "Ailuropoda melanoleuca")
lets.iucn.his(sp)
}