Extract elevation for each plot. Loops over tiles of 5 x 5°, projects to mercator, and extract elevation for plot coordinates, as well as 2.5, 50, and 97.5 quantiles for a buffer area having a radius equal to the location uncertainty of each plot (but only if location uncertainty < 50 km). DEM derive from package [elevatr](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/elevatr/vignettes/introduction_to_elevatr.html#get_raster_elevation_data), which uses the [Terrain Tiles on Amazon Web Services](https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles/). Resolutions of DEM rasters vary by region. I set a zoom factor z=10, which corresponds to ~ 75-150 m. Sources are: SRTM, data.gov.at in Austria, NRCAN in Canada, SRTM, NED/3DEP 1/3 arcsec, data.gov.uk in United Kingdom, INEGI in Mexico, ArcticDEM in latitudes above 60°, LINZ in New Zealand, Kartverket in Norway, as described [here](https://github.com/tilezen/joerd/blob/master/docs/data-sources.md)