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BIOMASS

The package

The BIOMASS package allows users to estimate above ground biomass/carbon and its uncertainty in tropical forests.

The main implemented steps are as follows :

1. retrieving and correcting tree taxonomy;
2. estimating the wood density and its uncertainty;
3. constructing height-diameter models;
4. estimating the above ground biomass/carbon at the stand level with the associated uncertainty;
5. managing tree and plot coordinates.

For more information, see the paper of Réjou-Méchain et al. (2017)

Install BIOMASS

The latest released version from CRAN:

install.packages("BIOMASS")

The latest version from Github (in development):

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github('umr-amap/BIOMASS')

To use it :

library("BIOMASS")

Tutorials/Vignettes

Two vignettes are available in the ‘Articles’ section of the following page : https://umr-amap.github.io/BIOMASS/index.html

Citation

Please cite this package as:

Réjou-Méchain M, Tanguy A, Piponiot C, Chave J, Herault B (2017). “BIOMASS : an R package for estimating above-ground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(9). ISSN 2041210X, doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12753.

Or you can also run

citation("BIOMASS")

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.