# Biodiversity Information Review and Decision Support

## Documentation for package ‘BIRDS’ version 0.1.27.1

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

## Help Pages

BIRDS | BIRDS: Biodiversity Information Review and Decision Support.
bombusObs | Species observations for the genus _Bombus_ spp. in Götaland, Sweden.
bombusObsShort | A short version of bombusObs dataset for faster examples.
bryophytaObs | Species observations of bryophytes in Götaland, Sweden
communityMatrix | Create a community matrix (grid cells x species)
communityMatrixGrid | Creates a community matrix per grid cell (sample x species x grid cell)
createVisits | Create unique visits IDs
drawPolygon | Create the polygon for the study area by drawing into a world map
exploreVisits | A function to explore the definition of field visits
exportBirds | Export single variables from SummarisedBirds objects
exposeIgnorance | Create ignorance scores
focalSpReport | Summarise all records for a species
focalSpSummary | Summarize records of a species among all visits
getGridIDs | Create unique IDs based on a grid
getUTMproj | A wrapper around getUTMzone and produce a proj4 string
gotaland | Götaland, Sweden.
gridAsString | Convert a grid into a web query string.
listSpecies | Lists all species names from the data set
makeCircle | Create the minimum circle containing the points
makeGrid | Make a grid
OB2Polygon | Create the polygon for the study area from a dataset of class 'OrganizedBirds'
obsData | Extract observation data
obsData.OrganizedBirds | Extract observation data
obsIndex | Observation Index
organiseBirds | Organize a dataframe to a usable format
organizeBirds | Organize a dataframe to a usable format
overlayBirds | Overlay BIRDS object and grid
overlayBirds.OrganizedBirds | Overlay BIRDS object and grid
recBySpp | Observations by species or records-by-species matrix
removeObs | Remove observations belonging to the shortest ("worst") visits
SB | A simple summarisedBirds object.
searchPolygon | Searching polygon covering Götaland, Sweden.
simpleSB | A simple empty summarisedBirds object.
simplifySpp | Simplify species names
spatialVisits | A function to make the exploreVisits Spatial
speciesSummary | Summarize all records for a species
summariseBirds | Summarize the OrganizedBirds
summarizeBirds | Summarize the OrganizedBirds
summarizeBirds.OrganizedBirds | Summarize the OrganizedBirds
visits | Get/set the visits
visits<- | Get/set the visits
\sQuote{visits<-} | Get/set the visits