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license: Apache-2.0
title: 'vegbankr: Interface to the ''VegBank'' Vegetation Plot Database'
version: 1.0.0
doi: 10.82902/J1MW28
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.vegbankr
- type: url
  value: https://nceas.r-universe.dev/vegbankr
abstract: Provides a programmatic interface to 'VegBank', the vegetation plot database
  of the Ecological Society of America's Panel on Vegetation Classification, hosted
  by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu>).
  'VegBank' contains vegetation plot data, community types recognized by the U.S.
  National Vegetation Classification and others, and all 'ITIS/USDA' plant taxa along
  with other taxa recorded in plot records. As a 'VegBank' API client, the 'vegbankr'
  package currently supports querying and downloading vegetation plot records and
  other supporting information from the 'VegBank' database, and validating and uploading
  new data to the 'VegBank' database as well.
authors:
- family-names: Regetz
  given-names: Jim
  email: regetz@nceas.ucsb.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2666-6229
- family-names: Jones
  given-names: Matthew B.
  email: jones@nceas.ucsb.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0077-4738
- family-names: Nenuji
  given-names: Rushiraj
  email: nenuji@nceas.ucsb.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4678-5213
- family-names: Clark
  given-names: Jeanette
  email: jclark@nceas.ucsb.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4703-1974
- family-names: Klope
  given-names: Maggie
  email: mmklope@nceas.ucsb.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3926-7039
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'vegbankr: An R API Package for the VegBank Data System'
  authors:
  - family-names: Regetz
    given-names: Jim
    email: regetz@nceas.ucsb.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2666-6229
  - family-names: Jones
    given-names: Matthew B.
    email: jones@nceas.ucsb.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0077-4738
  - family-names: Nenuji
    given-names: Rushiraj
    email: nenuji@nceas.ucsb.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4678-5213
  - family-names: Clark
    given-names: Jeanette
    email: jclark@nceas.ucsb.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4703-1974
  - family-names: Klope
    given-names: Maggie
    email: mmklope@nceas.ucsb.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3926-7039
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 1.0.0
  url: https://doi.org/10.82902/J1MW28
  doi: 10.82902/J1MW28
repository: https://nceas.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/NCEAS/vegbankr
commit: 67b455247383d0d0c871ea2b9a0ece8001d6770b
url: https://nceas.github.io/vegbankr/
date-released: '2026-03-26'
contact:
- family-names: Regetz
  given-names: Jim
  email: regetz@nceas.ucsb.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2666-6229