Download ALA Occurrences for a Taxon Within a Circular Area

Retrieves occurrence records from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) for a specified taxon within a circular geographic area defined by a center point and radius.

Usage

get_ala_circle_occurrences(taxon, lat, lon, radius_km = 10, email = NULL, ...)

Arguments

taxon

Character. Scientific or common name that ALA can resolve.

lat

Numeric. Latitude of circle centre in decimal degrees (WGS84).

lon

Numeric. Longitude of circle centre in decimal degrees (WGS84).

radius_km

Numeric. Radius in kilometres. Default is 10 km.

email

Character. ALA/GBIF login email. If NULL, assumes you've already called galah_config() elsewhere. Default is NULL.

...

Additional arguments passed to atlas_occurrences(), such as filter = galah_filter(year >= 2000).

Value

A tibble of occurrence records from the ALA.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get all bird records within 10 km of a point
birds <- get_ala_circle_occurrences(
  taxon = "Aves",
  lat = -33.7,
  lon = 151.3,
  radius_km = 10,
  email = "your.email@example.com"
)

# With additional filters
recent_birds <- get_ala_circle_occurrences(
  taxon = "Manorina melanocephala",
  lat = -33.7,
  lon = 151.3,
  radius_km = 5,
  filter = galah_filter(year >= 2010)
)
} # }