Contributors: Scott Chamberlain

Name: Scott Chamberlain
Login: https://github.com/
Email: sckott@fastmail.com
OST Projects: 9
Languages: R, Python
Categories: Biosphere, Climate Change
Sub Categories: Biodiversity Data Access and Management, Climate Data Access and Visualization, Marine Life and Fishery
Topics: data-access, oai-pmh, scholarly-api, taxize, taxonomy, wikipedia-api, wikispecies, itis, taxonomic-databases, appveyor, bib, citations, doi, extract, ascii-art, crossref-api, biodiversity, gbif, lifewatch, oscibio, species, spocc, conservation, iucn, iucn-red-list, biological-data, biology, fish, jerico-relevant, marine-biology, marine-species, fishbase, specimen, vertnet, climate, noaa, noaa-data, darwincore, nomenclature, ecology, antweb, bison, ebird, ecoengine, idigbio, inaturalist, obis, occurrence, species-occurrence

Contributed Projects

rfishbase

An R interface to the fishbase.org database.

fish fishbase r r-package rstats taxonomy

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: 19.6

rredlist

An R client for the IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species.

api-wrapper biodiversity conservation iucn iucn-red-list r r-package rstats taxize

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: 18.4

pygbif

Making the data of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API accessible via Python.

api biodiversity data ecology gbif

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: 17.8

rvertnet

An R Wrapper to the VertNet API, a collaborative project that makes biodiversity data free and available on the web.

api-wrapper biodiversity r r-package rstats specimen spocc vertnet

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: 15.6

taxize

Allows users to search over many taxonomic data sources for species names (scientific and common) and download up and downstream taxonomic hierarchical information.

api api-wrapper biodiversity biology darwincore data nomenclature r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: 11.0

rgbif

Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API.

api biodiversity data gbif lifewatch oscibio r r-package rstats species spocc

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: 9.6

spocc

An R package to query and collect species occurrence data from many sources.

antweb api bison data ebird ecoengine gbif idigbio inaturalist obis occurrence r r-package rstats species species-occurrence spocc vertnet

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: 7.7

worrms

A R client for the World Register of Marine Species.

api-wrapper biological-data biology fish jerico-relevant marine-biology marine-species r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: 6.9

rnoaa

An R interface to many National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data sources.

climate noaa noaa-data r r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 05 Feb 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity