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BIEN

Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database

v1.2.7 · Jan 31, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Provides Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database. The BIEN database contains cleaned and standardized botanical data including occurrence, trait, plot and taxonomic data (See <https://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/> for more Information). This package provides functions that query the BIEN database by constructing and executing optimized SQL queries.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies RPostgreSQL DBI ape sf terra doParallel foreach RuHere rangeModelMetadata GVS NSR S4DM BIEN

Version History

new 1.2.7 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.7 ← 1.2.6 diff Jan 30, 2025
updated 1.2.6 ← 1.2.5 diff Jan 5, 2023
updated 1.2.5 ← 1.2.4 diff Feb 24, 2022
updated 1.2.4 ← 1.2.3 diff Feb 26, 2020
updated 1.2.3 ← 1.2.2 diff May 8, 2018
updated 1.2.2 ← 1.2.1 diff Aug 2, 2017
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Jul 30, 2017
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Mar 7, 2017
new 1.0.0 Jan 11, 2017