readDinerstein2017

Reads the RESOLVE Terrestrial Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017) and returns the areal cover fraction of a biome group per 0.5 degree cell.

Usage

readDinerstein2017(subtype = "grassland")

Arguments

subtype

Biome group whose areal cover fraction is returned. Currently only "grassland" = RESOLVE biomes 7 (tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands), 8 (temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands), 9 (flooded grasslands and savannas) and 10 (montane grasslands and shrublands).

Value

magpie object (67420 cells) with the cover fraction of the selected biome group. Cells outside any ecoregion of that group are NA and set to zero in correctDinerstein2017.

See also

correctDinerstein2017

Author

Florian Humpenoeder

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
readSource("Dinerstein2017", subtype = "grassland", convert = "onlycorrect")
} # }