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R interface to the fishbase.org database
https://docs.ropensci.org/rfishbase
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connect with FishLife for life history parameters? #129

Closed cboettig closed 1 year ago

cboettig commented 7 years ago

Seems like obtaining life-history parameters is a common rfishbase use case. Might be good to point users to @James-Thorson 's FishLife (and maybe other packages as well) as a point of comparison to the FishBase numbers?

Would it be worthwhile getting a sense of how significant the discrepancies are between the two, and maybe discussing with FishBase folk? (Not my area of expertise, but see https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1606)

James-Thorson commented 7 years ago

I previously found the estimates of life-history parameters from FishBase to be unreliable, but the data from FishBase to be consistent with other data sources (see, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/12-1855.1/full). Hence my interest in developing FishLife.

I definitely plan to email Rainer Froese and Daniel Pauly to discuss FishLife with them and whether its worth integrating its estimates into the FishBase website. I will definitely keep you in the loop if things go smoothly.

And of course: thank you for developing rfishbase! It was very helpful.