cycle_stats: Define stem cycles and calculate statistics for all cyclic...

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Define stem cycles and calculate statistics for all cyclic phases

Description

The function defines stem cycles from output of phase_def and calculates statistics for complete cycles as well as for the phases of contraction, expansion and stem-radius increment.

Usage

cycle_stats(dm.gpf, dm.phase, sensor = 1, smooth.param = 1)

Arguments

dm.gpf	a data.frame with either gap-free or gap-filled dendrometer series as produced by fill_gaps.
dm.phase	a data.frame with numbers indicating the different stem-cyclic phases. Output of phase_def.
sensor	a numeric specifying the sensor to be used in the function. Defaults to 1 (first column in both data.frames).
smooth.param	a numeric specifying the degree of smoothing. Defaults to 1 (no smoothing).

Details

The function uses the output of phase_def to define stem cycles and to calculate statistics for all cyclic phases. These statistics include the timing and duration of each phase, as well as information on stem-size changes. The function works for single dendrometer series, which are defined by the argument sensor.

The function includes a smoothing option (argument smooth.param) particularly for noisy datasets in which outliers may under- or overestimate the minimum and maximum stem size within phases and stem cycles. By default, no smoothing is performed.

Value

The function returns a list with:

• a data.frame named cycleStats containing the following summary statistics:

dmID	dendrometer ID.
cycle	cycle number.
phase	cyclic phase (1: contraction, 2: expansion, 3: stem-radius increment, 4: full cycle).
begin	timestamp indicating the beginning of each phase.
end	timestamp indicating the end of each phase.
duration_h	phase duration in hours.
duration_m	phase duration in minutes.
magnitude	magnitude of stem-size changes in each phase.
min	minimum stem size within each phase.
max	maximum stem size within each phase.

• a data.frame named cycle.df containing, for all individual records, the following columns:

dmID	dendrometer ID.
cycle	cycle number.
phase	cyclic phase (1: contraction, 2: expansion, 3: stem-radius increment, 4: full cycle).

Author(s)

Olivier Bouriaud, Ernst van der Maaten and Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen.

Examples

data(dmCD)
dm.phase <- phase_def(dmCD)
dm.stats <- cycle_stats(dmCD, dm.phase)

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