Topic: Growth

Topic Description:

Functions for analyzing tree growth, designed for the standard CTFS R Analytical Tables.

File: growth/growth.r
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Function: growth.dbh

Function Description: growth.dbh

This calculates forest-wide growth in given dbh categories. Arguments as for growth().

Function Arguments:

ArgumentDefault Value
census1
census2
classbreakc(10,100,300)
dbhunit'mm'
growthcol'dbh'
err.limit4
maxgrow75
rounddownFALSE
method'I'
stdevFALSE
mindbh10

Sample Usage:

growth.dbh=growth.eachspp(bci.full5,bci.full6,classbreak=c(10,50,100,300,500))

Function Source:

growth.dbh=function(census1,census2,classbreak=c(10,100,300),dbhunit='mm',growthcol='dbh',
err.limit=4,maxgrow=75,rounddown=FALSE,method='I',stdev=FALSE,mindbh=10)
{
allbreak=c(classbreak,10000)
dbhclass=as.numeric(as.character(cut(census1$dbh,breaks=allbreak,right=F,labels=classbreak)))


result=growth(census1,census2,mindbh=mindbh,dbhunit=dbhunit,rounddown=rounddown,method=method,growt
        hcol=growthcol, err.limit=err.limit,maxgrow=maxgrow,stdev=stdev,split2=dbhclass)
ord=order(result$dbhmean)
for(i in 1:length(result)) result[[i]]=result[[i]][ord]

return(result)
}