Metadata

Country

site_file$country

The ISO3c code identifying the country. The R package countrycode¹ is useful for converting between ISO3c and country names.

Version

site_file$version

The year and version of the site file.

Admininstrative level

site_file$admin_level

The administrative level (e.g. state, region, province) of the sites within the site file.

Sites

site_file$sites

The sites within the site file. These are the named sites disaggregated to the specified administrative level. Further disaggregation may include, for example, an urban rural split. We use the GADM² version 4.04 administrative boundary simple feature spatial files at the first or second administrative unit level.

Citations

1.

Arel-Bundock, V., Enevoldsen, N. & Yetman, C. Countrycode: An r package to convert country names and country codes. Journal of Open Source Software 3, 848 (2018).

2.

GADM maps and data.