A Shiny App for Conservation Gardening

This Shiny app shows declining native plant species that are amenable to gardening, how to grow them, and where to buy them for each German federal state. The application can be accessed here in German: https://conservation-gardening.shinyapps.io/app-de/; and here in English: https://conservation-gardening.shinyapps.io/app-en/

The repository contains all the R code and data to reproduce the analyses and figures in Munschek, M., Witt, R., Kaltofen, K. et al. Putting conservation gardening into practice. Sci Rep 13, 12671 (2023). In addition, it contains the source code for the application.

Folder structure

1. Data-inputs contains the master red list (i.e., the combined RLs across the 16 German federal states) and the respective pdf files of each individual RL.

2. Data-outputs contains all the text-mining data from gardening and seller websites.

3. Data-shiny is the data that streamline into the Shiny application.

4. R-code-for-database contains the preamble loading all R packages, all text-mining scripts and scripts for data carpentry integrating the data used in the Shiny application.

5. R-code-for-analysis contains all the scripts to reproduce the figures in our study.

6. Cg-app-de contains the data, frontend and backend for the Shiny application in German.

7. Cg-app-en contains the data, frontend and backend for the Shiny application in English.

Contact

Please contact us at ingmar.staude@uni-leipzig.de if you have further questions, or information on plants we have not listed yet among conservation gardening species.