Get EUNIS Legal Information for a Species Using iNaturalist Taxon ID — get_eunis_legal

This function takes a taxon.id from iNaturalist, retrieves the corresponding scientific name from the iNaturalist API, searches the EUNIS database, and extracts the legal information related to the EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and Birds Directive (2009/147/EC), as delivered by data retrieved from the EUNIS species database.

Usage

get_eunis_legal_info(taxon.id)

Arguments

taxon.id: Integer. The taxon ID of the species in iNaturalist.

Value

A tibble with the following columns:

taxon.id: iNaturalist taxon ID provided as input
scientific_name: Scientific name of the species retrieved from iNaturalist
Legal text: Legal directive text from EUNIS (92/43/EEC or 2009/147/EC)
Annex: Annex information from EUNIS table

Author

Alessandro Oggioni, PhD (2023) alessandro.oggioni@cnr.it

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
## Not run:
get_eunis_legal_info(taxon.id = 61749)
} # }
## End (Not run)