BiomasaFP-package: ForestPlots.net Package to estimate aboveground biomass (AGB)...

Description Details Author(s) References

Description

Tools for analysing data downloaded from ForestPlots.net. This package includes functions for: a) estimating above ground biomass (AGB) from forest inventory data and b) producing summary statistics for each plot and census.

Details

Package: BiomasaFP
Type: Package
Version: 1.0
Date: 2014-12-03
License: GPL-3

To use this package you need to download the following data sets from ForestPlots.net: a) Individuals dataset from the Advanced search; b) Individual Wood density values from the Query Library c) Plot Metadata for R, from the Query Library.

Author(s)

Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Martin Sullivan, Tim Baker

Maintainer: Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez <admin@forestplots.net>

References

Lopez-Gonzalez G, Lewis SL, Burkitt M. and Phillips OL. 2011. ForestPlots.net: a web application and research tool to manage and analyse tropical forest plot data. Journal of Vegetation Science 22: 610-613. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01312.x

Biomass and height estimates

Chave C, Andalo S, Brown, et al. 2005. Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests. Oecologia 145 (1):87-99. doi:10.1007/s00442-005-0100-x.

Chave J, Rejou-Mechain M, Burquez A et al. 2014. Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees. Global Change Biology 20: 3177-3190. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12629

Feldpausch TR, Banin L, Phillips OL, Baker TR, Lewis SL et al. 2011. Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees. Biogeosciences 8 (5):1081-1106. doi:10.5194/bg-8-1081-2011.

Wood Density

Chave J, Coomes DA, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE. 2009. Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12(4): 351-366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01285.x

Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J. 2009. Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.234


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