Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database R package BIEN version 1.2.8 CRAN Task View: NetworkAnalysis (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=NetworkAnalysis) Provides Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network Database. The BIEN database contains cleaned and standardized botanical data including occurrence, trait, plot and taxonomic data (See <https://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/> for more Information). This package provides functions that query the BIEN database by constructing and executing optimized SQL queries. Software Depends: R (>= 4.1.0), RPostgreSQL Imports: DBI, ape, sf, terra, doParallel, parallel, foreach Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, curl, maps Brian Maitner <bmaitner@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Brian Maitner [aut, cre] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BIEN/LICENSE) 2026-04-30 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BIEN doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.BIEN