REBA: Rapid EOO-Based Assessment

This repository contains code, data, and figures that support:

Levin, M.O., J.B. Meek, B. Boom, S.M. Kross, and E.A. Eskew. 2022. Using publicly available data to conduct rapid assessments of extinction risk. Conservation Science and Practice 4: e12628.

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Repository Structure

• /data contains raw and intermediate data files necessary for the analysis

  • /fit_models contains the fit Bayesian model objects
  • /gbif_miscellaneous contains metadata associated with the GBIF data pull
  • /IUCN contains assessment, plant type, and plant threat data from the IUCN
  • /modeling_data contains datasets for statistical modeling
  • /NatureServe contains NatureServe data on plant conservation status, for comparison
  • /rcat contains conservation metrics, as calculated with rCAT

• /outputs contains all figures output from the data visualization script

• /R contains code for functions that are sourced in the analysis scripts

• /scripts contains the primary analysis scripts, ordered sequentially by number

  • 01_data_acquisition.R uses rgbif to harvest plant occurrence records
  • 02_data_cleaning.R cleans the resulting occurrence data
  • 03_data_analysis.R uses rCAT and custom methods to generate conservation metrics for each species
  • 04_generate_modeling_data.R cleans and organizes the data for statistical modeling purposes
  • 05_statistical_modeling.R fits Bayesian models
  • 06_data_visualization.R generates all relevant figures