This is a data package with data on occurrence and abundance records for deliberately introduced dung beetles in Australia. Currently, the data contain 1,752,807 species identifications from 22,718 occurrence records, taken from 10,272 sampling events at 546 locations. The data also contain 213,538 absence records. The data are explained in detail in Berson et al (2024).
Code used to format the data can be found in the data-raw folder. Note
that we formatted and performed checks on data from different projects
separately (see data-raw/qld_2001_2010.R,
data-raw/dafwa_wa_2012_2014.R and data-raw/dbee_2019_2022.R), before
combining these data into one dataset (see data-raw/dungfauna_aus.R).
Code used to generate the summary statistics, figures and tables in
Berson et al (2024) can by found in the data-paper folder within the
data-raw folder.
The data are provided in both wide (dungfauna_event) and long
(dungfauna_occurrence) format. Running dungfaunaR::runShinyApp()
will launch a shiny app for visually exploring the data.
You can install dungfaunaR from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jdberson/dungfaunaR")After installing the package, the following code load the data into your R session:
library(dungfaunaR)
# To load the data in wide format:
data("dungfauna_event")
# To load the data in long format:
data("dungfauna_occurrence")After installing and loading the package, you can explore the data with
the built-in shiny app using dungfaunaR::runShinyApp()
Berson, Jacob D., Penelope B. Edwards, T. James Ridsdill-Smith, Christopher K. Taylor, Daniel J. Anderson, Nigel R. Andrew, Russell A. Barrow, David A. Cousins, Robert N. Emery, Laura L. Fagan, Rhiannon M. Foster, Lucas G. Harwood, Zac Hemmings, Megan J. Lewis, Sherralee S. Lukehurst, Jake Manger, John N. Matthiessen, Marcela D. C. Vieira, Paul A. Weston, Raphael K. Didham and Theodore A. Evans. 2024. “Deliberately Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia: 12 years of Occurrence and Abundance Records from 2001 to 2022.” Ecology e4328. https:// doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4328
If you find an error or a bug we would love to hear from you! Please let us know what you have found by creating an issue at https://github.com/jdberson/dungfaunaR/issues.