• Overview
• Installation
• Documentation
• Citation
• Contributing
• Acknowledgments
• References
The goal of the R package forcis
is to provide an interface to the FORCIS database on global foraminifera distribution (Chaabane et al. 2023). This database includes data on living planktonic foraminifera diversity and distribution in the global oceans from 1910 until 2018 collected using plankton tows, continuous plankton recorder, sediment traps and plankton pump from the global ocean.
forcis
This package has been developed for researchers interested in working with the FORCIS database, even without advanced R skills. It provides basic functions to facilitate the handling of this large database, including functions to download, select, filter, homogenize, and visualize the data. It also enables users to explore the spatial distribution and temporal evolution of planktonic foraminifera.
Figure 2: Overview of visualizations available inforcis
You can install the development version from GitHub with:
## Install < remotes > package (if not already installed) ---- if (!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE)) { install.packages("remotes") } ## Install dev version of < forcis > from GitHub ---- remotes::install_github("ropensci/forcis")
N.B. The forcis
package depends on the sf
package which requires some spatial system libraries (GDAL and PROJ). Please read this page if you have any trouble to install forcis
.
Finally you can attach the package forcis
with:
forcis
provides five vignettes to learn more about the package:
forcis
to compute abundances, concentrations, and frequenciesforcis
Please cite this package as:
Casajus N, Greco M, Chaabane S, Giraud X & de Garidel-Thoron T (2025) forcis: Handle the FORCIS foraminifera database. R package version 1.0.1. URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/forcis/.
You can also run:
All types of contributions are encouraged and valued. For more information, check out our Contributor Guidelines.
Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
This package has been developed for the FRB-CESAB working group FORCIS that aims to understand the importance of the main stressors such as temperature and ocean acidification that govern foraminifera species distribution and calcification processes, with focus on present and near-future ocean impacts.
We want to thanks Khalil Hammami (@khammami) for his valuable contribution to this package.
Chaabane S, De Garidel-Thoron T, Giraud X, Schiebel R, Beaugrand G, Brummer G-J, Casajus N, Greco M, Grigoratou M, Howa H, Jonkers L, Kucera M, Kuroyanagi A, Meilland J, Monteiro F, Mortyn G, Almogi-Labin A, Asahi H, Avnaim-Katav S, Bassinot F, Davis CV, Field DB, Hernández-Almeida I, Herut B, Hosie G, Howard W, Jentzen A, Johns DG, Keigwin L, Kitchener J, Kohfeld KE, Lessa DVO, Manno C, Marchant M, Ofstad S, Ortiz JD, Post A, Rigual-Hernandez A, Rillo MC, Robinson K, Sagawa T, Sierro F, Takahashi KT, Torfstein A, Venancio I, Yamasaki M & Ziveri P (2023) The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters. Scientific Data, 10, 354. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02264-2.
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