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		Download and Process Environmental Variables // Provides a
		unified interface to download, harmonise and extract a wide
		range of environmental and socio-economic variables from
		established open data web services (such as 'WorldClim'
		https://www.worldclim.org/, 'CHELSA' https://chelsa-
		climate.org/ and 'Bio-ORACLE' https://www.bio-oracle.org/,
		among others) for use in macroecology and biogeography. The
		package handles spatial subsetting to a study area,
		reprojection to a common coordinate reference system, and
		extraction of values at sampling points, so that predictors
		from heterogeneous sources can be assembled within a single
		reproducible workflow. Helper functions for collinearity
		checking and variable exploration are also included.
	</longdescription>
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