R packages medfate & medfateland

Overview

The R package medfate has been designed to study the characteristics and simulate dynamics of Mediterranean forests. Fire and drought impacts are the main drivers covered by the package. Representation of vegetation is not spatially-explicit (i.e. trees or shrubs do not have explicit coordinates within plots). This simplified representation is chosen so that package functions can be easily applied to plot data from national forest inventories. Since the package intends to facilitate predictions of both structure and composition, the taxonomic identity of plants is stored, and parameter values need to be provided for each taxonomic entity (but the package could be used with functional groups).

The R package medfateland has been designed to apply and extend the models included in medfate to the landscape level. It allows running the stand-level models available in medfate on points and cells within landscape. More importantly, medfateland allows considering spatial hydrological processes in forested watersheds. Hence, medfateland can be used as a tool for eco-hydrological applications.

Authorship

  • Package medfate: Miquel De Cáceres, Antoine Cabon, Víctor Granda, Shengli Huang, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, Maurizio Mencuccini, Nicolas Martin-StPaul

  • Package medfateland: Miquel De Cáceres

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