add_tropical_biomass: Add biomass using allometric equations for tropical trees.
In forestgeo/fgeo.biomass: Calculate Biomass with the Best Available Allometries

Description Usage Arguments Value References See Also Examples

This function wraps a number of functions from the BIOMASS package, which you may see for more options and details. It uses pantropical models from Chave et al. 2014 to estimate the above-ground biomass of tropical trees.

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add_tropical_biomass(data, species, region = "Pantropical",
  latitude = NULL, longitude = NULL,
  dbh_unit = guess_dbh_unit(data$dbh))

`data`	A ForestGEO-like census-dataframe.
`species`	A ForestGEO-like species-dataframe.
`region`	Area of your dataset to estimate tree height thanks to Weibull-H region-, continent-specific and pantropical models proposed by Feldpausch et al. (2012). To be chosen between: `Africa`: Africa `CAfrica`: Central Africa `EAfrica`: Eastern Africa `WAfrica`: Western Africa `SAmerica`: Southern America `BrazilianShield`: Brazilian Shield `ECAmazonia`: East-Central Amazonia `GuianaShield`: Guiana Shield `WAmazonia`: Western Amazonia `SEAsia`: South-Eastern Asia `NAustralia`: Northern Australia `Pantropical`: Pantropical
`latitude, longitude`	A number giving coordinates, e.g. `latitude = 9.004080`, `longitude = -79.525635`. It can also be a vector of such numbers, with as many elements as the number of rows of `data`.
`dbh_unit`	Character string giving the unit of dbh values, e.g. "mm" (see `valid_units()`).

A modified version of the data dataframe, with additional columns giving taxonomic, wood density (in g/cm^3), and biomass (in kg) information.

Chave et al. (2014) Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees, Global Change Biology, 20 (10), 3177-3190

BIOMASS::computeAGB(), BIOMASS::retrieveH() add_wood_density().

library(dplyr)
library(fgeo.biomass)

data <- fgeo.biomass::scbi_stem_tiny_tree
species <- fgeo.biomass::scbi_species

add_tropical_biomass(data, species, region = "pantropical")

# Not running to reduce build check-time
## Not run: 
data %>%
  add_tropical_biomass(species, latitude = -34, longitude = -58) %>%
  select(biomass, everything())

## End(Not run)