rMyCoPortal

rMyCoPortal provides programmatic access to fungal specimen and observation records from the Mycology Collections Portal for integration into R-based statistical and computational analyses.

Key Features:

• Automated data access: Enables programmatic retrieval of fungal records from the Mycology Collections Portal, including access to the portal's repository of over 4.3 million records.
• R integration: Imports retrieved datasets directly into R for downstream statistical analyses and computational workflows.
• Support for biodiversity and biogeographical data: Exposes specimen and observation metadata relevant to fungal biodiversity, distribution, and biogeography studies.

Scientific Applications:

• Fungal biodiversity analyses: Facilitates quantitative studies of species richness, diversity patterns, and taxonomic occurrence using specimen and observation records.
• Biogeography and distributional studies: Enables analysis of geographic distributions and range shifts of fungi across regions.
• Ecology and evolutionary biology: Supports investigations of ecological interactions, distributional correlates, and evolutionary patterns in fungal lineages.
• Conservation assessments: Provides occurrence data that can be used to inform conservation status and priority-setting for fungal taxa.

Methodology:

Automates retrieval of records from the Mycology Collections Portal and imports those datasets into R for subsequent statistical and computational analysis.