WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data

• Published in: Applications in plant sciences Vol. 8; no. 9; pp. e11388 - n/a
• Main Author: Kindt, Roeland
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Algorithms; Biodiversity; biodiversity informatics; Biogeography; computer software; data collection; Datasets; flora; Flowers & plants; Names; online flora; plant name identification; Plant sciences; Plants; Software Note; Software Notes; species name matching; spelling errors; Standardization; taxonomic databases; Taxonomy; Timber; Trees; vegetation; online flora; taxonomic databases; biodiversity informatics; plant name identification; spelling errors; species name matching

Premise The standardization of plant names is a critical step in various fields of biology, including biodiversity, biogeography, and vegetation research. The WorldFlora package is introduced here to help achieve this goal by matching lists of plant names with a static copy from World Flora Online (...