Estimate the biome for outliers

[valentinitnelav]

I have some sample data points and I would like to extract corresponding Whittaker biome information based on the annual average temperature and annual average precipitation of these data points. Do you have any solutions for this? Can you identify outliers (i.e. those not in Whittaker communities), and also determine which biome each sample data point belongs to? If you are able to help with this, I would be grateful. Thank you!

[valentinitnelav]

The part of your question related to identifying the outliers has been addressed here: https://rawgit.com/valentinitnelav/plotbiomes/master/html/Check_outliers.html

Then once you have the coordinates of the outliers you could apply one of these suggested answers here https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/225102/calculate-distance-between-points-and-nearest-polygon-in-r so to get the nearest polygone.

Not sure if I will get the time to create a function for this. Any support is welcome.