benthos-package: ecosystem functions, traits, and compositions of (mainly)...

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Description

Provides functions to lookup species traits and compositions of (mainly) aquatic benthic invertebrates and to calculate ecosystem functions of theese utilising Toms arificial neural network models

Details

Package: benthos
Type: Package
Version: 1.0
Date: 2012-10-15
License: GPL (>= 2)

Usually, the methods are fed with species names or names of higher taxonomic units. Sometimes, more parameters are needed, e. g., mass, temperature, and waterdepth for the respiration and productivity neural network models.

Author(s)

Jan M Holstein <holstein@uni-bremen.de>

References

T. Brey, C. Müller-Wiegmann, Z. Zittier, W. Hagen, 2010. Body composition in aquatic organisms–a global data bank of relationships between mass, element composition

Brey T, 2001. Population dynamics in benthic invertebrates. http://www.thomas-brey.de/science/


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