match species CAAB code with CSIRO expert distribution shapefiles

Source: R/get_expert_distribution_shp_CAAB_qc.R

Get expert distribution shapefile, if available, from CSIRO's Geoserver. Full CAAB code list: http://www.marine.csiro.au/datacentre/caab/caab_dump_latest.xlsx

get_expert_distribution_shp_CAAB(CAAB_species_id, spe)

Arguments

CAAB_species_id

CAAB id of species for which a distribution shapefile is required

spe

species scientific name

Value

shp is a multipolygon sf data.frame object of the species' distribution

Details

For a few species acoustically tagged no shapefile exists.

Examples

# example code
x <- TownsvilleReefQC$QC[[1]]
expert_shp <- get_expert_distribution_shp_CAAB(CAAB_species_id = x$CAAB_species_id[1], 
spe = x$species_scientific_name[1])