estimateRootingDepth: Estimate Rooting Depth Parameters

In emf-creaf/medfateutils: Utility Functions for Package `medfate`

Estimate Rooting Depth Parameters

Description

Estimates rooting depth parameters for forest objects following Cabon et al. (2018).

Usage

estimateRootingDepth(
  forest,
  soil,
  PET_summer,
  P_summer,
  SpParams,
  fillMissing = FALSE
)

estimateRootingDepthList(
  forestlist,
  soillist,
  PET_summer,
  P_summer,
  SpParams,
  fillMissing = FALSE
)

Arguments

forest	An object of class forest.
soil	An object of class soil or a data frame with soil parameters.
PET_summer	Average (climatic) potential evapotranspiration (mm) corresponding to summer months.
P_summer	Average (climatic) precipitation (mm) corresponding to summer months.
SpParams	A data frame with species parameters (see SpParamsMED).
fillMissing	A boolean flag to indicate that missing estimates should be filled with mean values.
forestlist	A list of objects of class forest.
soillist	A list with objects of class soil or data frames with soil parameters.

Details

If PET_summer or P_summer are of length one, their elements are repeated for all elements in forestlist. Similarly, if soillist is an object of class soil or a data frame with soil parameters, the same soil parameters are repeated for all elements in forestlist.

Value

Function estimateRootingDepth returns object of class forest with modified values for Z50 and Z95. Function estimateRootingDepthList returns a list of forest objects with modified root distribution parameters.

Author(s)

Miquel De Cáceres Ainsa, EMF-CREAF

References

Cabon, A., Martinez-Vilalta, J., de Aragon, J.M., Poyatos, R., De Caceres, M., 2018. Applying the eco-hydrological equilibrium hypothesis to model root distribution in water-limited forests. Ecohydrology 11, e2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2015

See Also

forest

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