plant_cover: Estimate soil cover percentage by plants

In SoilManageR: Calculate Soil Management Indicators for Agricultural Practice Assessment

Estimate soil cover percentage by plants

Description

This function estimates the percentage of soil cover based on the number of days since sowing. The parameters used are derived from \insertCitemosimann2006;textualSoilManageR.

Usage

plant_cover(varCrop, varDays = 0)

Arguments

varCrop	Crop type, must match with crop name in plant_cover_LUT
varDays	Number of days since sowing of the crop

Details

The function assumes that plant cover unfolds in four phases with different soil cover rates:

• 0 to 10 % of soil cover

• 10 to 50 % of soil cover

• 50 to 75 % of soil cover

• 75 to 100 % of soil cover

Value

percentage of soil cover by plants, value of 0 to 100 %.

References

\insertAllCited

See Also

• soil_cover() to calculate soil coverage by plants and residue for a management_df

• plant_cover_LUT() for the data used by the plant_cover() function

Examples

plant_cover("wheat, winter", 140)

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