cardidates-package: Identification of Cardinal Dates in Ecological Time Series

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Identification of Cardinal Dates in Ecological Time Series

Description

Identification of cardinal dates (begin, time of maximum, end of mass developments) in ecological time series using fitted Weibull functions.

Details

Phenology and seasonal succession in aquatic ecosystems are strongly dependent on physical factors. In order to promote investigations into this coupling, objective and relible methods of characterising annual time series are important.

The proposed methods were developed within the AQUASHIFT research program and used to determine the beginning, maximum and end of the spring mass development of phytoplankton in different lakes and water reservoirs. These time points, which we call “cardinal dates”, can be analysed for temporal trends and relationships to climate variables.

The complete methodology is described in Rolinski et. al (2007). Until now we implemented only the most reliable approach using Weibull-Functions (Method B in the article), other algorithms may follow when required.

The methodology may also be useful for other ecological time series (e.g. small mammals or insects). Please don't hesitate to contact the package maintainer if you feel that this package should be generalized to other processes.

Author(s)

Susanne Rolinski (original algorithm), Thomas Petzoldt and René Sachse (package and documentation).

Maintainer: Thomas Petzoldt <[e-mail]>

References

Rolinski, S., Horn, H., Petzoldt, T. & Paul, L. (2007): Identification of cardinal dates in phytoplankton time series to enable the analysis of long-term trends. Oecologia 153, 997 - 1008. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/s00442-007-0783-2")}.

Wagner, A., Hülsmann, S., Paul, L., Paul, R. J., Petzoldt, T., Sachse, R., Schiller, T., Zeis, B., Benndorf, J. & Berendonk, T. U. (2012): A phenomenological approach shows a high coherence of warming patterns in dimictic aquatic systems across latitude. Marine Biology 159(11), 2543-2559, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/s00227-012-1934-5")}.

See Also

weibull4, weibull6, fitweibull, peakwindow, CDW, metaCDW

Examples

########## quick start for the impatient ###############
## create some test data
set.seed(123)
x <- seq(0, 360, length = 20)
y <- abs(rnorm(20, mean = 1, sd = 0.1))
y[5:10] <- c(2, 4, 7, 3, 4, 2)

## fit Weibull function with 6 free parameters
res <- fitweibull6(x, y)
plot(res)
summary(res)

################## more details #########################

## show some properties
res$r2
p <- res$p
o <- res$fit
f <- res$ymax

## identify cardinal dates from fitted curves
(smd  <- CDW(p))
(smda <- CDW(p, symmetric = FALSE))

## plot data, curve and cardinal dates
plot(x, y, ylim = c(0, 10), xlim = c(0, 365))
lines(o$x, o$f * f)
points(x, fweibull6(x, p) * f, col = "green")
points(smd$x, smd$y * f, col = "orange", pch = 16)

## or, alternatively:
points(smda$x, fweibull6(smda$x, p) * f, col = "red", pch = 1, cex = 1.2)

## for comparison: fit of a 4 parameter Weibull
res4  <- fitweibull4(x, y)
res4$r2
p <- res4$p
o <- res4$fit
f <- res4$ymax
smd  <- CDW(p)
lines(o$x, o$f * f, col = "blue")
points(smd$x, fweibull4(smd$x, p) * f, col = "blue", pch = 16)

cardidates documentation built on Oct. 8, 2023, 3 a.m.