Get the number of taxa under each taxonomic level for a dataframe generated by the function CTPL

Compute the number of species under each family, each genus, and each group. See the value secion.

Usage

count_taxa(checklist_dat)

Arguments

checklist_dat

A data.frame generated by CTPL or in the same format.

Value

NO_OF_FAMILIES

Number of families in the data.frame

NO_OF_GENERA

Number of genera in the data.frame

NO_OF_SPECIES

Number of species in the data.frame

NO_OF_FAMILIES_BY_GROUP

Number of families under each group of higher plants, namely, Moss, Ferns and Lycophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms

NO_OF_GENERA_BY_GROUP

Number of genera under each group, namely, Moss, Ferns and lycophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms

NO_OF_SPECIES_BY_GROUP

Number of species under each group, namely, Moss, Ferns and lycophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms

NO_OF_GENERA_BY_FAMILY

The name is self-explanatory

NO_OF_SPECIES_BY_FAMILY

The name is self-explanatory

NO_OF_SPECIES_BY_GENUS

The name is self-explanatory

Details

Simple function summarizing the number of taxa under each taxonomic level.

References

None

See also

make_checklist, CTPL

Author

Jinlong Zhang

Examples

## Do not run
## See the vignette