gbif.range: Species Range Mapping from GBIF Using Ecoregion Constraints

A user-friendly, end-to-end workflow to generate ecologically informed species range maps from sparse observations using environmental clustering and convex hulls. Serves as a standalone framework or complementary approach to Species Distribution Models (SDMs). By constraining estimated ranges within authoritative or custom ecoregion boundaries, the approach prevents spurious range over-prediction common in geometric hull methods. The package automates data acquisition via 'GBIF' synonym-aware, tiled downloads; curates records using 13 configurable filters; and supports multi-scale analysis by integrating global or user-provided spatial layers. Also includes disk-based batch processing for large-scale studies and built-in tools for cross-validation and expert-derived evaluations.

Version: 1.9.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: terra, rgbif, CoordinateCleaner, sf, ClusterR, FNN, geometry, cluster, mclust, methods, utils, zip, class, NMOF, stats, tools, graphics, grDevices
Suggests: data.table, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-03
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gbif.range
Author: Yohann Chauvier ORCID iD [cre, aut], Oskar Hagen ORCID iD [aut], Stefan Pinkert ORCID iD [aut], Camille Albouy ORCID iD [aut], Fabian Fopp ORCID iD [aut], Philipp Brun ORCID iD [aut], Patrice Descombes ORCID iD [aut], Florian Altermatt ORCID iD [aut], Loïc Pellissier ORCID iD [aut], Katalin Csillery ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: Yohann Chauvier <yohann.chauvier at wsl.ch>
BugReports: https://github.com/8Ginette8/gbif.range/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/8Ginette8/gbif.range, https://8ginette8.github.io/gbif.range/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: gbif.range results

Documentation:

Reference manual: gbif.range.html , gbif.range.pdf
Vignettes: Supplementary: ‘gbif.range's manuscript’s figures (source, R code)
Part 2: Ecoregion-Based Range Inference (source)
Part 1: GBIF Retrieval, Taxonomy, and Filtering (source)
Part 0: Getting Started (source)
Part 3: Large Downloaded GBIF Tables (source)

Downloads:

Package source: gbif.range_1.9.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: gbif.range_1.9.1.zip, r-release: gbif.range_1.9.1.zip, r-oldrel: gbif.range_1.9.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): gbif.range_1.9.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): gbif.range_1.9.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): gbif.range_1.9.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): gbif.range_1.9.2.tgz
Old sources: gbif.range archive

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