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The photosynthesis package simulates photosynthetic rate given a set of leaf traits and environmental conditions by solving the Farquhar-von Caemmerer-Berry C3 biochemical model. There are two main steps to using photosynthesis:
photo
and photosynthesis
for single and multiple parameter sets, respectively).In this vignette, I'll show you how to:
You can use the default parameter settings and simulate photosynthetic rate in a single leaf using the make_*()
functions and photo()
.
library(dplyr) library(magrittr) library(photosynthesis) # Leaving the make_* functions empty will automatically default to defaults # parameters. bake_par = make_bakepar() # temperature response parameters constants = make_constants(use_tealeaves = FALSE) # physical constants leaf_par = make_leafpar(use_tealeaves = FALSE) # leaf parameters enviro_par = make_enviropar(use_tealeaves = FALSE) # environmental parameters photo(leaf_par, enviro_par, bake_par, constants, quiet = TRUE, use_tealeaves = FALSE)
You can look at default parameters settings in the manual (run ?make_parameters
). These defaults are reasonable, but of course you will probably want to use different choices and allow some parameters to vary. Here, I'll demonstrate how to replace a default. In the next section, I'll show you how to set up a gradient of parameter values over which to solve for leaf temperature.
# Use the `replace` argument to replace defaults. This must be a named list, and # each named element must have the proper units specified. See `?make_parameters` # for all parameter names and proper units. # Temperature response parameters can be updated (but we won't do that here) bake_par = make_bakepar() # Physical constants probably do not need to be replaced in most cases, # that's why we call them 'constants'! constants = make_constants(use_tealeaves = FALSE) # First, we'll change photosynthetic photon flux density to 1000 umol / (m^2 s) enviro_par = make_enviropar( replace = list( PPFD = set_units(1000, "umol/m^2/s") ), use_tealeaves = FALSE ) # Next, we'll change stomatal conductance to 0.3 mol / m^2 / s. leaf_par = make_leafpar( replace = list( g_sc = set_units(0.3, mol / m^2 / s) ), use_tealeaves = FALSE ) photo <- photo(leaf_par, enviro_par, bake_par, constants, quiet = TRUE, use_tealeaves = FALSE) photo |> select(PPFD, C_chl, A) |> knitr::kable()
In the previous two examples, I used the photo
function to solve for a single parameter set. In most cases, you'll want to solve for many parameter sets. The function photosynthesis
generalizes photo
and makes it easy to solve for multiple parameter sets using the same argument structure. All you need to do is specify multiple values for one or more leaf or environmental parameters and photosynthesis
uses the purrr::cross
function to fit all combinations^[Since optimization is somewhat time-consuming, be careful about crossing too many combinations. Use progress = TRUE
to show progress bar with estimated time remaining.].
# As before, use the `replace` argument to replace defaults, but this time we # enter multiple values bake_par = make_bakepar() constants = make_constants(use_tealeaves = FALSE) # First, we'll change the PPFD to 1000 and 1500 umol / (m^2 s) enviro_par = make_enviropar( replace = list( PPFD = set_units(c(1000, 1500), umol / m^2 / s) ), use_tealeaves = FALSE ) # Next, we'll change stomatal conductance to to 0.2 and 0.4 mol / m^2 / s leaf_par = make_leafpar( replace = list( g_sc = set_units(c(0.2, 0.4), mol / m^2 / s) ), use_tealeaves = FALSE ) # Now there should be 4 combinations (high and low g_sc crossed with high and low PPFD) ph = photosynthesis(leaf_par, enviro_par, bake_par, constants, use_tealeaves = FALSE, progress = FALSE, quiet = TRUE) ph |> select(g_sc, PPFD, A) |> knitr::kable()
It can take a little while to simulate many different parameter sets. If you have multiple processors available, you can speed things up by running simulations in parallel. In the photosynthesis
function, simply use the parallel = TRUE
argument to simulate in parallel. You'll need to set up a future plan()
. See ?future::plan
for more detail. Here I'll provide an example simulating an $A-C_c$ curve.
# NOTE: parallel example is not evaluated because it was causing an issue with CRAN, but you can copy-and-paste the code to run on your own machine. library(future) plan("multisession") # Set up plan # We'll use the `replace` argument to enter multiple atmospheric CO2 concentrations bake_par = make_bakepar() constants = make_constants(use_tealeaves = FALSE) enviro_par = make_enviropar( replace = list( C_air = set_units(seq(10, 2000, length.out = 20), umol / mol) ), use_tealeaves = FALSE ) leaf_par = make_leafpar(use_tealeaves = FALSE) ph = photosynthesis(leaf_par, enviro_par, bake_par, constants, use_tealeaves = FALSE, progress = FALSE, quiet = TRUE, parallel = TRUE) # Plot C_c versus A library(ggplot2) ## Drop units for plotting ph %<>% mutate_if(~ is(.x, "units"), drop_units) ggplot(ph, aes(C_chl, A)) + geom_line(size = 2) + xlab(expression(paste(C[chl], " [ppm]"))) + ylab(expression(paste("A [", mu, "mol ", m^-2~s^-1, "]"))) + theme_bw() + NULL
In experiments, leaf temperature can be kept close to air temperature, but in nature, leaf temperature can be quite a bit different than air temperature in the shade depending on environmental and leaf parameters. If use_tealeaves = TRUE
, photo()
and photosynthesis()
will call on the tealeaves package to calculate leaf temperature using an energy balance model.
# NOTE: parallel example is not evaluated because it was causing an issue with CRAN, but you can copy-and-paste the code to run on your own machine. # You will need to set use_tealeaves = TRUE when making parameters because additional parameters are needed for tealeaves. bake_par = make_bakepar() constants = make_constants(use_tealeaves = TRUE) enviro_par = make_enviropar( replace = list( T_air = set_units(seq(288.15, 313.15, 1), K) ), use_tealeaves = TRUE ) leaf_par = make_leafpar(replace = list( g_sc = set_units(c(0.2, 0.4), mol / m^2 / s) ), use_tealeaves = TRUE ) ph = photosynthesis(leaf_par, enviro_par, bake_par, constants, use_tealeaves = TRUE, progress = FALSE, quiet = TRUE, parallel = TRUE) # Plot temperature and photosynthesis library(ggplot2) ## Drop units for plotting ph %<>% mutate_if(~ is(.x, "units"), drop_units) %>% mutate(`g[s]` = ifelse(g_sc == 0.2, "low", "high")) ggplot(ph, aes(T_air, T_leaf, color = `g[s]`)) + geom_line(size = 2, lineend = "round") + geom_abline(slope = 1, intercept = 0, linetype = "dotted") + scale_color_discrete(name = expression(g[s])) + xlab(expression(paste(T[air], " [K]"))) + ylab(expression(paste(T[leaf], " [K]"))) + theme_bw() + NULL ggplot(ph, aes(T_air, A, color = `g[s]`)) + geom_line(size = 2, lineend = "round") + scale_color_discrete(name = expression(g[s])) + xlab(expression(paste(T[leaf], " [K]"))) + ylab(expression(paste("A [", mu, "mol ", m^-2~s^-1, "]"))) + theme_bw() + NULL
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