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  <dc:contributor>Lyndsie S. Wszola</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Gabriela Palomo-Munoz</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Jessica Leigh Burnett</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2019</dc:date>
  <dc:description>This R package contains functions for downloading and munging data from the U.S. Geological Surveys North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) via file transfer protocol (FTP)
(Pardieck, Ziolkowski Jr, Lutmerding, &amp; Hudson, 2018; J. R. Sauer et al., 2017). This package was created to allow the user to bulk-download the BBS point count and related (e.g.,
route-level conditions) via FTP, and to quickly subset the data by taxonomic classifications
and/or geographical locations. This package also maintains data containing the trend and
annual indices from the most recent (1996-2017) hierarchical population analyses (J. Sauer
et al., 2017).</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.21105/joss.01768</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>JOSS</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>BbsAssistant: An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>