Genus: Returns Genus and Common Name for SPP in Inventory

In ryanmismith/inventoryfunctions: Forestry Inventory Functions

Returns Genus and Common Name for SPP in Inventory

Description

This function returns the Genus, Wood Type (HW/SW), and Common Name for species included in the Northeast Variant of FVS. Genus can be useful for modeling purposes, and the common and lazy names can be used for creating graphic representations of forest composition for non-foresters.

Usage

Genus(SPP)

Arguments

SPP	Species: use FVS species codes

Value

The 1: Common Name, 2: Genus 3: Lazy Name and 4: WoodType (HW/SW) of species entered.

Examples

trees <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
SPP <- c("BF", "BF", "RO", "RS", "RO")
tree_df <- data.frame(trees, SPP)
genusinfo <- apply(tree_df, 2, Genus)

Genus("BA")

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