LCW: Largest Crown Width

In ryanmismith/inventoryfunctions: Forestry Inventory Functions

Largest Crown Width

Description

This function returns an estimate for the widest crown diameter or radius for a stand grown tree.

Usage

LCW(SPP, MCW, DBH)

Arguments

SPP	Tree Species: use the FVS code
MCW	Maximum Crown Width in meters.
DBH	Diameter at breast height in cm.

Details

Metric

This function uses metric units.

SPP included: BF, BS, EH, WP, NC, RS, WS, AB, GB, RB, RO, PB, QA, RM, SM, YB. SPP that are not included can be enter as 'OH' for hardwoods and 'OS' for softwoods. If no SPP is entered a standard coefficient will be used but may not reflect the crown conditions accurately - please enter 'OS' or 'OH' if species is not included.

Species should be entered as a character vector.

MCW value needed to calculate LCW, please refer to MCW function in see also.

Value

Numeric. Widest crown diameter or radius for a stand grown tree in meters.

See Also

MCW

Other Crown Functions: CCF.Larger(), CrownCompF(), MCW()

Examples

LCW("BF", 8.63, 25)
## Not run: 
Tibble %>% mutate(LCW = LCW("SPP Variable", "MCW Variable", "DBH Variable"))

## End(Not run)

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