README.md

In HenrikeAndresen/BenthicPro: Benthic Energy Flow

BenthicPro

Benthic Energy Flow

Description

This package estimates productivity and production of aquatic macrobenthic invertebrate populations. Its function BenthicPB is the translation to R of the Excel spreadsheet "ProductivityANN01" from the "Virtual Handbook on Population Dynamics". It estimates population production-to-biomass ratio from biomass and other specific abiotic and biotic information by means of an empirical model. This model has been developed by Thomas Brey and constitutes a composite Artificial Neural Network based on 1252 data sets of population production referring to 635 species and 519 references.

Installation

in R, type

devtools::install_github("HenrikeAndresen/BenthicPro")

If you don't have yet, (install.packages("devtools")) first.

Authors

Henrike Andresen [e-mail] and Thomas Brey

Cite

H. Andresen and T. Brey, Benthic Energy Flow v1.0, R-package, (2018), GitHub repository, https://github.com/HenrikeAndresen/BenthicPro

References

Brey, Thomas (2012) A multi-parameter artificial neural network model to estimate macrobenthic invertebrate productivity and production. Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods 10, 2012, 581-589. DOI 10.4319/lom.2012.10.581

HenrikeAndresen/BenthicPro documentation built on May 28, 2019, 11:03 p.m.