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type: software
license: MIT
title: 'biofetchR: Download, Clean, Classify, Enrich and Export Biodiversity Occurrence
Data'
version: 0.1.0
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.biofetchR
abstract: Downloads, imports, cleans, classifies, enriches and exports biodiversity
occurrence data, with an emphasis on reproducible Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (GBIF) workflows. The package supports batch
occurrence downloads, taxonomic standardisation, coordinate cleaning, optional spatial
thinning, spatial attribution and structured export of processed occurrence records
and audit outputs. Terrestrial and freshwater workflows can join records to administrative
units, protected areas, freshwater ecoregions, basins, rivers, lakes, reservoirs,
wetlands and other contextual spatial overlays. Marine workflows support offshore
and coastal records through joins to Marine Regions
style layers, Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) units, marine ecoregions, Large Marine
Ecosystems and user-supplied marine overlays. The package also supports native-range
and invasive-status evidence workflows using the World Register of Marine Species
(WoRMS) , evidence derived from Standardising and
Integrating Alien Species (SInAS) , and Global
Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) style species-country
records. These tools are intended for biodiversity, macroecological and invasion-biology
analyses where occurrence records need to be processed consistently, transparently
and reproducibly.
authors:
- family-names: Stuart
given-names: Darren
email: dstuart04@qub.ac.uk
repository: https://dstuart505.r-universe.dev
commit: 64ff807e6141a60037c02af9bcd85dfa5d093d60
date-released: '2026-07-21'
contact:
- family-names: Stuart
given-names: Darren
email: dstuart04@qub.ac.uk