This dataset contains over 300,000 occurrence records of orchid species (*Orchidaceae*) in Australia from 2014 to 2024. The data includes spatial, temporal, and taxonomic details, as well as associated weather station metadata for ecological analysis.
Format
A tibble with 302,123 rows and 14 variables:
- obs_lat
Latitude of the observation (decimal degrees)
- obs_lon
Longitude of the observation (decimal degrees)
- date
Date of the observation (YYYY-MM-DD)
- time
Time of the observation (HH:MM:SS)
- year
Year of the observation
- month
Month (1–12)
- day
Day of the month
- hour
Hour extracted from the time (0–23)
- weekday
Day of the week (as ordered factor)
- dayofyear
Day of the year (1–366)
- sci_name
Scientific name of the observed orchid species
- record_type
Type of observation (e.g., HUMAN_OBSERVATION, PRESERVED_SPECIMEN)
- obs_state
Australian state where the observation occurred (may be missing)
- ws_id
Nearest weather station ID linked to the observation
Details
The data was collected using the galah package from the Atlas of Living Australia, cleaned, and linked to nearby weather stations for ecological and climatic studies. The records span multiple orchid genera and include a range of observation types.
Examples
data(orchids)
head(orchids)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 14
#> obs_lat obs_lon date time year month day hour weekday dayofyear
#> <dbl> <dbl> <date> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <int> <ord> <dbl>
#> 1 -35.2 118. 2017-09-11 18:08:00 2017 9 11 18 Monday 254
#> 2 -35.2 118 2019-08-02 12:38:00 2019 8 2 12 Friday 214
#> 3 -35.2 117. 2016-10-06 17:32:00 2016 10 6 17 Thursday 280
#> 4 -35.2 118. 2017-09-07 09:30:00 2017 9 7 9 Thursday 250
#> 5 -35.2 118. 2022-08-06 09:21:09 2022 8 6 9 Saturday 218
#> 6 -35.2 118. 2024-09-18 10:36:00 2024 9 18 10 Wednesd… 262
#> # ℹ 4 more variables: sci_name <chr>, record_type <chr>, obs_state <chr>,
#> # ws_id <chr>