fW: Water stress

fWR Documentation

Water stress

Description

Threshold function representing growth limitation due to water stress.

Usage

fW(W, PET)

Arguments

W

Water stress given as the ratio of water reserves to water holding capacity.

PET

Potential evapotranspiration in mm per day.

Details

After equation (6) in McCall et al. (2003).#'

Value

A value in the range (0, 1), acting as a multiplicative factor to plant growth.

References

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mccall2003PastureGrowthModelgrowR

Examples

fW(0.5, 7)
fW(0.5, 5)
fW(0.5, 3)


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