macroBiome: A Tool for Mapping the Distribution of the Biomes and Bioclimate
Procedures for simulating biomes by equilibrium vegetation
models, with a special focus on paleoenvironmental applications.
Three widely used equilibrium biome models are currently implemented in
the package: the Holdridge Life Zone (HLZ) system (Holdridge 1947,
<doi:10.1126/science.105.2727.367>), the Köppen-Geiger classification
(KGC) system (Köppen 1936,
<https://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/pdf/Koppen_1936.pdf>) and the
BIOME model (Prentice et al. 1992, <doi:10.2307/2845499>). Three
climatic forest-steppe models are also implemented.
An approach for estimating monthly time series of relative sunshine
duration from temperature and precipitation data (Yin 1999,
<doi:10.1007/s007040050111>) is also adapted, allowing
process-based biome models to be combined with high-resolution
paleoclimate simulation datasets (e.g., CHELSA-TraCE21k v1.0 dataset:
<https://chelsa-climate.org/chelsa-trace21k/>).
Documentation:
Downloads:
Linking:
Please use the canonical form
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=macroBiome
to link to this page.
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.
[aut, cre,
cph]