Animals, tags and IDs in a Movebank study

This function returns information of the animals, their tags and IDs from a Movebank study.

Usage

getMovebankAnimals(study, login)

Arguments

study: character or numeric. Character: full name of the study, as stored on Movebank. Numeric: Movebank ID of the study which can be obtained on the Study Details page on Movebank or with getMovebankID.
login: a MovebankLogin object, if empty you'll be asked to enter your username and password

Details

getMovebankAnimals belongs to the Movebank browsing functions and returns a data.frame from the requested study that includes among others the individual_id, tag_id, deployment_id, sensor_type_id which are the internal ids of Movebank, the tag_local_identifier, local_identifier which are the ids uploaded to Movebank by the user and other information if available as e.g. death_comments, sex, individual_taxon_canonical_name, etc.

Note

See the 'browseMovebank' vignette for more information about security and how to use Movebank from within R.

Value

'data.frame'

Author

Marco Smolla & Anne Scharf

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# obtain a login
login<-movebankLogin()
getMovebankAnimals(study=2950149, login=login)
}