forcis: Handle the FORCIS Foraminifera Database

Provides an interface to the 'FORCIS' database (Chaabane et al. (2024) doi:10.5281/zenodo.7390791 ) on global foraminifera distribution. This package allows to download and to handle 'FORCIS' data. It is part of the FRB-CESAB working group FORCIS. https://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/the-frb-in-action/programs-and-projects/le-cesab/forcis/.

See also

Useful links:

• https://docs.ropensci.org/forcis/

• https://github.com/ropensci/forcis

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/forcis/issues

Author

Maintainer: Nicolas Casajus nicolas.casajus@fondationbiodiversite.fr (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Authors:

• Mattia Greco mattia_greco@outlook.com (ORCID)

• Sonia Chaabane sonia.chaabane@gmail.com (ORCID)

• Xavier Giraud giraud@cerege.fr (ORCID)

• Thibault de Garidel-Thoron garidel@cerege.fr (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Khalil Hammami khalil.hammami@enetcom.usf.tn [contributor]

• Air Forbes amforbes@ualberta.ca (ORCID) [reviewer]

• FRB-CESAB [funder]