Taxonomic names of all groups

This data frame was assembled from all taxonomic data products in the package. It is updated each release by data-raw/02_clean_save_data.R and preserves taxa from previous releases so that names are not lost between NEON data versions.

neon_taxa

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

  • taxon_id: Accepted species code, based on one or more sources.

  • taxon_name: Scientific name associated with the taxon ID. This is the name of the lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined.

  • taxon_rank: The lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined for the individual or specimen.

  • taxon_group: The taxonomic group the taxon belongs to (e.g. "ALGAE", "BEETLES").

Note

NEON source tables use either taxonID or acceptedTaxonID depending on the data product. Both are standardized to taxon_id here.