This R package contains functions for downloading and munging data from the U.S. Geological Surveys North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) via file transfer protocol (FTP)
(Pardieck, Ziolkowski Jr, Lutmerding, & Hudson, 2018; J. R. Sauer et al., 2017). This package was created to allow the user to bulk-download the BBS point count and related (e.g.,
route-level conditions) via FTP, and to quickly subset the data by taxonomic classifications
and/or geographical locations. This package also maintains data containing the trend and
annual indices from the most recent (1996-2017) hierarchical population analyses (J. Sauer
et al., 2017).
Citation Information
Publication Year | 2019 |
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Title | BbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey |
DOI | 10.21105/joss.01768 |
Authors | Jessica Leigh Burnett, Lyndsie S. Wszola, Gabriela Palomo-Muñoz |
Publication Type | Article |
Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Series Title | Journal of Open Source Software |
Series Number | |
Index ID | 70217534 |
Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |
USGS Organization | Science Analytics and Synthesis |