In robertwbuchkowski/soilfoodwebs: Soil Food Web Analysis

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soilfoodwebs

The purpose of the soilfoodwebs package is to help analyze and simulate soil food webs. The following five functions are the core of the package:

1. Calculate the fluxes through a food web given biomass, parameters, and food web structure.
2. Calculate the direct and indirect contribution of each trophic species (i.e., node) to carbon and nitrogen mineralization.
3. Calculate food web stability and smin.
4. Simulate the food web away from equilibrium.
5. Conduct a detritus decomposition simulation and calculate the decomposition constant.

The package also can complete the following tasks using functions built to work with the communities that are input:

1. Modify the fluxes to balance carbon and nitrogen demands.
2. Modify the structure of the food web.

Installation

You can install the released version of soilfoodwebs from GitHub with:

# Install devtools if not available:
if (!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")

# Install soilfoodwebs
devtools::install_github("robertwbuchkowski/soilfoodwebs")

# Install soilfoodwebs with the vignette
devtools::install_github("robertwbuchkowski/soilfoodwebs", build_vignettes = T, build_opts = c("--no-resave-data", "--no-manual"))

Example

The core of the soilfoodwebs package allows you to calculate the fluxes of carbon and nitrogen through a food web at equilibrium using basic properties about each trophic species or node.

For example, here is a plot of the carbon flow through the introductory community after corrections are made to balance nitrogen demand.

library(soilfoodwebs)
intro_comm_temp = corrstoich(intro_comm)
ana1 <- comana(intro_comm_temp, mkplot = T, whattoplot = "web")

Here are the rates of carbon and nitrogen mineralization predicted for each species.

# Carbon mineralization:
ana1$Cmin

# Nitrogen mineralization:
ana1$Nmin

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