feowR provides a faster and secure way to download shapefiles of Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW) using piggyback R package.
Installation
You can install the development version of feowR from GitHub with:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("brunomioto/feowR")
Example
Now let’s plot it!
We can see the list of all ecoregions, from FEOW website
ecoregions_list
#> # A tibble: 426 × 4
#> id realm major_habitat_type ecoregion
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 101 Nearctic Polar freshwaters Alaskan Coastal
#> 2 102 Nearctic Polar freshwaters Upper Yukon
#> 3 103 Nearctic Temperate coastal rivers Alaska & Canada Paci…
#> 4 104 Nearctic Temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands Upper Mackenzie
#> 5 105 Nearctic Polar freshwaters Lower Mackenzie
#> 6 106 Nearctic Polar freshwaters Central Arctic Coast…
#> 7 107 Nearctic Temperate upland rivers Upper Saskatchewan
#> 8 108 Nearctic Temperate upland rivers Middle Saskatchewan
#> 9 109 Nearctic Large lakes English - Winnipeg L…
#> 10 110 Nearctic Temperate coastal rivers Southern Hudson Bay
#> # ℹ 416 more rows