Wrapper biomass function for packages medfate and medfateland

Wrapper function to be used to calculate tree biomass for packages medfate and medfateland.

Usage

IFNbiomass_medfate(
  x,
  SpParams,
  area = NA,
  fraction = "total",
  level = "cohort"
)

Arguments

x

Data frame of tree data or forest object from package medfate.

SpParams

Data frame of species parameters suitable for medfate package (not used).

area

Either 'Atlantic' or 'Mediterranean' to specify allometric equations specific to the area (for Pinus pinaster)

fraction

A string, either "total" (for total biomass), "stem" (for stem biomass), "branches" (for branch biomass), "aboveground" (for aboveground biomass) or "belowground" (for belowground biomass).

level

A string, either "cohort" (for tree cohort-level biomass) or "stand" (for stand-level biomass).

Value

A vector of biomass of each tree cohort (in Mg/ha of dry weight) to be used in medfate or medfateland packages.

Details

Values for parameter x will be supplied by the calling function (e.g. modify_forest_structure). Values for parameters area, fraction and level (if they defaults need to be changed) should be supplied using as a list to parameter biomass_arguments.

See also

IFNbiomass

Examples

if(require("medfate")) {
  IFNbiomass_medfate(exampleforest, SpParamsMED,
                     fraction = "aboveground",
                     level = "stand")
}
#> Loading required package: medfate
#> Package 'medfate' [ver. 4.8.5]
#> [1] 142.1382