Exploring specimen collections data in Butte County, California
Why Butte County? I went to college at California State University, Chico - in Butte County, CA. I did a BA degree in Biology there. It was a great program as it was heavily focused on natural history - with classes on herps, birds, insects, fish, etc. Specimen collections data Specimen collections data are increasingly being digitized, and often accessed via largeish platforms like GBIF and iDigBio. Here I’ll explore Butte County data found with iDigBio with the spocc R package. You could also use the ridigbio package to go directly to iDigBio data. ...