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		Species Range Mapping from GBIF Using Ecoregion Constraints //
		Provides a workflow to retrieve, filter, and analyze 'GBIF'
		occurrence records and to generate ecologically informed
		species range maps using downloaded or custom ecoregions. The
		package includes tools for querying the 'GBIF' backbone
		taxonomy with get_status(), counting or downloading occurrences
		with get_gbif_count() and get_gbif(), creating custom ecoregion
		layers with make_ecoreg(), building range maps with
		get_range(), and evaluating them against independent validation
		data with evaluate_range() and cv_range(). A disk-based batch
		workflow (split_gbif_by_species(), species_csvs_to_ranges(),
		read_range_rds()) supports large multi-species 'GBIF' exports
		without loading the full table into memory. Bundled ecoregion
		layers cover terrestrial (Olson et al. 2001
		doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:TEOTWA]2.0.CO;2), marine
		(Spalding et al. 2007 doi:10.1641/B570707), and freshwater
		(Abell et al. 2008 doi:10.1641/B580507) realms. The 'GBIF' API
		is accessed via the 'rgbif' package, and coordinate cleaning
		uses 'CoordinateCleaner' (Zizka et al. 2019
		doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13152). The 'GBIF' API is described at
		https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary.
	</longdescription>
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