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Species richness counts the number of potential species intersecting with a polygon grouped by the IUCN threat categorization. Note, that this indicator function requires the manual download of the respective raster files.

Usage

calc_species_richness(engine = "extract", stats = "mean")

Arguments

engine

The preferred processing functions from either one of "zonal", "extract" or "exactextract" as character.

stats

Function to be applied to compute statistics for polygons either one or multiple inputs as character. Supported statistics are: "mean", "median", "sd", "min", "max", "sum" "var".

Value

A function that returns an indicator tibble with IUCN layers with specified statistics as variable and respective values as value.

Details

The specific meaning of the species richness indicator depends on the supplied raster file.

The required resources for this indicator are: