Add plant traits from Baseflor (Catminat / Julve)

Joins Baseflor (Julve, Programme Catminat) plant traits to a taxify() result by looking up accepted_name. Baseflor covers the vascular flora of France and neighbouring regions, providing flowering phenology, pollination and breeding biology, dispersal mode, and floral and fruit morphology.

Usage

add_baseflor(x, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x: A data.frame returned by taxify().
verbose: Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

The same data.frame with additional columns:

flower_begin_month: First month of flowering (1-12).
flower_end_month: Last month of flowering (1-12). A value smaller than flower_begin_month denotes a flowering period that wraps across the new year (e.g. begin 10, end 6).
pollination_vector: Pollination vector(s): insect, wind, water, self, apogamy. Comma-separated when more than one applies.
dispersal_mode: Diaspore dispersal mode(s): anemochory, barochory, epizoochory, endozoochory, myrmecochory, hydrochory, autochory, dyszoochory. Comma-separated when more than one applies.
breeding_system: Sexual system: hermaphroditic, monoecious, dioecious, gynodioecious, androdioecious, gynomonoecious, polygamous.
flower_colour: Flower colour(s): white, yellow, pink, green, blue, brown, black. Comma-separated when more than one applies.
fruit_type: Fruit type: achene, capsule, caryopsis, drupe, legume, silique, berry, follicle, cone, samara, pyxid.
woody_growth_form: Woody growth form for woody taxa: tree, small tree, large tree, shrub, bush, subshrub, liana, parasite. NA for non-woody (herbaceous) taxa.
continentality: Ellenberg-style continentality indicator value (1-9), the axis absent from EIVE.
salinity: Ellenberg-style salinity indicator value (0-9), the axis absent from EIVE.

Details

Source: Baseflor, Programme Catminat (Julve 1998 ff.). Coverage: ~7,000 vascular plant taxa of France and neighbouring regions. Data are released under ODbL 1.0 / CC BY-SA 2.0.

For ecological indicator values on the light, temperature, moisture, reaction, and nutrient axes, see add_eive() (European calibration). For Raunkiaer life form and seed, leaf, and clonality traits of the Northwest European flora, see add_leda().

References

Julve, Ph. (1998 ff.) baseflor. Index botanique, ecologique et chorologique de la Flore de France. Programme Catminat.

Examples

# Runs offline against the bundled example database.
old <- options(taxify.data_dir = taxify_example_data())

taxify("Bellis perennis") |>
  add_baseflor()

options(old)