Occurrence cubes at species level for European countries

This package contains aggregated occurrence data ("occurrence cubes") at species level for European countries. These occurrence cubes were generated by grouping species occurrence data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) by year (year), 1x1km spatial EEA reference grid cell (eea_cell_code) and species (speciesKey). For each grouping, the number of occurrences found in GBIF (n) and the minimum coordinateUncertaintyInMeters (min_coord_uncertainty) are provided. The provided coordinateUncertaintyInMeters of an occurrence is taken into account when assigning it to a grid cell (see this code). The occurrence cubes can be used as input data for indicators, mapping and species distribution modelling. The occurrence cubes are built on open science principles and intended to be completely reproducible: The input data are publicly available on GBIF, with the download DOIs listed in the related identifiers of this package. The code to process the data to cubes is publicly available on GitHub at https://github.com/trias-project/occ-cube (version 20220308). Files Occurrence cubes at species level per country: filename format countrycode_species_cube.csv. Taxonomic information for species in a cube: filename format countrycode_species_info.csv. Included countries Belgium (BE): based on https://10.15468/dl.hefbvj Italy (IT): based on https://10.15468/dl.8aasr6 Lithuania (LT): based on https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.kmh5hs Slovenia (SI): based on https://10.15468/dl.b22yu3 Occurrence cubes are added on demand. To include occurrence cubes for other European countries, leave an issue or contact the main author, or generate your own cube using the code in this repository.This work has been funded under the under the Belgian Science Policies Brain program (BelSPO BR/165/A1/TrIAS) and the LIFE program of the European Union (LIFE19 NAT/BE/000953 - LIFE RIPARIAS)