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BbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey

December 4, 2019

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).

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
Index ID 70217534
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Science Analytics and Synthesis
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