stopover.mass.calculator: Stopover mass calculator

In BMasinde/FlyingR: Simulation of Bird Flight Range

Stopover mass calculator

Description

During stop-overs birds replenish fat mass. Using simplifications from Lindström 1991. The implementation here is simplistic in that muscle mass is not restored as theory and field experiments have shown.

Usage

stopover.mass.calculator(bodyMass, fatMass, taxon, duration)

Arguments

bodyMass	left-over after running function migrate
fatMass	left-over after running function migrate
taxon	(or order) classified into two categories (passerines and non-passerines)
duration	number of hours spent at stop-over site. This must be an integer see example

Value

fat_mass, body_mass

Examples

stopover.mass.calculator(bodyMass = c(2.2, 3.4), fatMass = c(0.34, 0.42),
taxon = c(1,2), duration = 36L)

BMasinde/FlyingR documentation built on June 28, 2022, 8:30 p.m.