Introduction
Package forestindicators is meant to assist the estimation of indicators (metrics) for forest stands, either derived from forest inventory data or forest model simulations. Most often, those indicators will estimate the provision of forest ecosystem services, but the package can be understood more generally as a platform to estimate forest metrics.
Package installation
Package forestindicators can be installed from GitHub. At present, it requires the previous installation of package IFNallometry also available in GitHub only:
remotes::install_github("emf-creaf/IFNallometry")Once installed, you can proceed to the installation of forestindicators:
remotes::install_github("emf-creaf/forestindicators")Documentation and training
Two vignettes are included here illustrate: (1) how to use the R package to estimate indicators; and (2) how to define new indicators.
Authorship
Package forestindicators is developed and maintained by the Ecosystem Modelling Facility unit at CREAF (in Spain) and the Landscape Modelling Group at CTFC (in Spain).
Funding
- Research project: Improving the modelling of key forest dynamic processes to forecast long-term changes in Mediterranean forests under climate change (IMPROMED). Financial Entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2023-152644NB-I00). Duration from: 01/09/2024 to: 31/08/2025. PI: Miquel De Cáceres/Josep Mª Espelta.