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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |