biogeom {biogeom}R Documentation

Biological Geometries

Description

Is used to simulate and fit biological geometries. 'biogeom' incorporates several novel universal parametric equations that can generate the profiles of bird eggs, flowers, linear and lanceolate leaves, seeds, starfish, and tree-rings (Gielis, 2003; Shi et al., 2020), three growth-rate curves representing the ontogenetic growth trajectories of animals and plants against time, and the axially symmetrical and integral forms of all these functions (Shi et al., 2017, 2021). The optimization method proposed by Nelder and Mead (1965) was used to estimate model parameters. 'biogeom' includes several real data sets of the boundary coordinates of natural shapes, including avian eggs, fruit, lanceolate and ovate leaves, tree rings, seeds, and sea stars,and can be potentially applied to other natural shapes. 'biogeom' can quantify the conspecific or interspecific similarity of natural outlines, and provides information with important ecological and evolutionary implications for the growth and form of living organisms. Please see Shi et al. (2022) for details.

Details

The DESCRIPTION file:

Package: biogeom
Type: Package
Title: Biological Geometries
Version: 1.4.3
Date: 2024-03-21
Authors@R: c(person(given="Peijian", family="Shi", email="pjshi@njfu.edu.cn", role=c("aut", "cre")), person(given=c("Johan"), family="Gielis", email="johan.gielis@uantwerpen.be", role=c("aut")), person(given=c("Brady K."), family="Quinn", email="brady.quinn@dfo-mpo.gc.ca", role=c("aut")))
Author: Peijian Shi [aut, cre], Johan Gielis [aut], Brady K. Quinn [aut]
Maintainer: Peijian Shi <pjshi@njfu.edu.cn>
Imports: spatstat.geom (>= 2.4-0)
Description: Is used to simulate and fit biological geometries. 'biogeom' incorporates several novel universal parametric equations that can generate the profiles of bird eggs, flowers, linear and lanceolate leaves, seeds, starfish, and tree-rings (Gielis (2003) <doi:10.3732/ajb.90.3.333>; Shi et al. (2020) <doi:10.3390/sym12040645>), three growth-rate curves representing the ontogenetic growth trajectories of animals and plants against time, and the axially symmetrical and integral forms of all these functions (Shi et al. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.01.012>; Shi et al. (2021) <doi:10.3390/sym13081524>). The optimization method proposed by Nelder and Mead (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308> was used to estimate model parameters. 'biogeom' includes several real data sets of the boundary coordinates of natural shapes, including avian eggs, fruit, lanceolate and ovate leaves, tree rings, seeds, and sea stars,and can be potentially applied to other natural shapes. 'biogeom' can quantify the conspecific or interspecific similarity of natural outlines, and provides information with important ecological and evolutionary implications for the growth and form of living organisms. Please see Shi et al. (2022) <doi:10.1111/nyas.14862> for details.
Depends: R (>= 4.3.0)
License: GPL (>= 2)
NeedsCompilation: no

Index of help topics:

DEPE                    Calculation of the First-Order Derivative of
                        the Explicit Preston Equation
DETE                    Calculation of the First-Order Derivative of
                        the Explicit Troscianko Equation
DNRGE                   Calculation of the First-Order Derivative of
                        the Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equation
DSGE                    Calculation of the First-Order Derivative of
                        the Simplified Gielis Equation
EPE                     Calculation of the Ordinate For an Arbitrary
                        Point on the Preston Curve in the Plane
ETE                     Calculation of the Ordinate For an Arbitrary
                        Point on the Troscianko Curve in the Plane
GE                      Calculation of the Polar Radius of the Gielis
                        Curve
LeafSizeDist            Leaf size distribution of _Shibataea chinensis_
MBriereE                Modified Briere Equation
MLRFE                   Modified Lobry-Rosso-Flandrois (LRF) Equation
MPerformanceE           Modified Performance Equation
MbetaE                  Modified Beta Equation
NRGE                    The Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equation (NRGE)
Neocinnamomum           Leaf Boundary Data of Seven Species of
                        _Neocinnamomum_
PE                      Calculation of the Abscissa, Ordinate and
                        Distance From the Origin For an Arbitrary Point
                        on the Preston Curve
SCSE                    Sarabia-Castillo-Slottje Equation (SCSE)
SHE                     Sitthiyot-Holasut Equation
SarabiaE                Sarabia Equation
SurfaceAreaEPE          Calculation of the Surface Area of An Egg Based
                        on the Explicit Preston Equation
SurfaceAreaETE          Calculation of the Surface Area of An Egg Based
                        on the Explicit Troscianko Equation
SurfaceAreaNRGE         Calculation of the Surface Area of An Egg Based
                        on the Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equation
SurfaceAreaSGE          Calculation of the Surface Area of An Egg Based
                        on the Simplified Gielis Equation
TE                      The Troscianko Equation (TE)
TGE                     Calculation of the Polar Radius of the Twin
                        Gielis Curve
TSE                     The Todd-Smart Equation (TSE)
VolumeEPE               Calculation of the Volume of An Egg Based on
                        the Explicit Preston Equation
VolumeETE               Calculation of the Volume of An Egg Based on
                        the Explicit Troscianko Equation
VolumeNRGE              Calculation of the Volume of An Egg Based on
                        the Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equation
VolumeSGE               Calculation of the Volume of An Egg Based on
                        the Simplified Gielis Equation
adjdata                 Boundary Data Adjustment of A Polygon
areaGE                  Area Calculation for the Gielis Curve Within
                        [0, 2pi)
areaovate               Area Calculation for an Ovate Polygon
bambooleaves            Leaf Boundary Data of _Phyllostachys incarnata_
                        T. H. Wen (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)
bilat                   Measure of the Extent of Bilateral Symmetry of
                        A Polygon
biogeom                 Biological Geometries
curveEPE                Drawing the Preston Curve Produced by the the
                        Explicit Preston Equation
curveETE                Drawing the Troscianko Curve Produced by the
                        Explicit Troscianko Equation
curveGE                 Drawing the Gielis Curve
curveNRGE               Drawing the Egg Shape Predicted by the
                        Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equation
curveovate              Drawing the Ovate Leaf-Shape Curve
eggs                    Egg Boundary Data of Nine Species of Birds
fitEPE                  Data-Fitting Function for the Explicit Preston
                        Equation
fitETE                  Data-Fitting Function for the Explicit
                        Troscianko Equation
fitGE                   Data-Fitting Function for the Gielis Equation
fitLorenz               Data-Fitting Function for the Rotated and
                        Right-Shifted Lorenz Curve
fitNRGE                 Parameter Estimation for the
                        Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equation
fitSuper                Data-Fitting Function for the Superellipse
                        Equation
fitovate                Data-Fitting Function for the Ovate Leaf-Shape
                        Equation
fitsigmoid              Data-Fitting Function for the Sigmoid Growth
                        Equation
fracdim                 Calculation of Fractal Dimension of Lef Veins
                        Based on the Box-Counting Method
ginkgoseed              Boundary Data of the Side Projections of
                        _Ginkgo biloba_ Seeds
kp                      Boundary Data of the Vertical Projections of
                        _Koelreuteria paniculata_ Fruit
lmPE                    Parameter Estimation for the Todd-Smart
                        Equation
lmTE                    Parameter Estimation for the Troscianko
                        Equation
shoots                  Height Growth Data of Bamboo Shoots
sigmoid                 Sigmoid Growth Equation
starfish                Boundary Data of Eight Sea Stars
veins                   Leaf Vein Data of _Michelia compressa_
whitespruce             Planar Coordinates of _Picea glauca_ Tree Rings

Note

We are deeply thankful to Cang Hui, Yang Li, Uwe Ligges, Valeriy G. Narushin, Ülo Niinemets, Karl J. Nikas, Honghua Ruan, David A. Ratkowsky, Julian Schrader, Rolf Turner, Lin Wang, and Victoria Wimmer for their valuable help during creating this package. This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFD02200403) and Simon Stevin Institute for Geometry (Antwerpen, Belguim).

Author(s)

Peijian Shi [aut, cre], Johan Gielis [aut], Brady K. Quinn [aut]

Maintainer: Peijian Shi <pjshi@njfu.edu.cn>

References

Gielis, J. (2003) A generic geometric transformation that unifies a wide range of natural and abstract shapes. American Journal of Botany 90, 333-338. doi:10.3732/ajb.90.3.333

Nelder, J.A., Mead, R. (1965). A simplex method for function minimization. Computer Journal 7, 308-313. doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308

Shi, P., Fan, M., Ratkowsky, D.A., Huang, J., Wu, H., Chen, L., Fang, S., Zhang, C. (2017) Comparison of two ontogenetic growth equations for animals and plants. Ecological Modelling 349, 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.01.012

Shi, P., Gielis, J., Quinn, B.K., Niklas, K.J., Ratkowsky, D.A., Schrader, J., Ruan, H., Wang, L., Niinemets, Ü. (2022) 'biogeom': An R package for simulating and fitting natural shapes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1516, 123-134. doi:10.1111/nyas.14862

Shi, P., Ratkowsky, D.A., Gielis, J. (2020) The generalized Gielis geometric equation and its application. Symmetry 12, 645. doi:10.3390/sym12040645

Shi, P., Yu, K., Niklas, K.J., Schrader, J., Song, Y., Zhu, R., Li, Y., Wei, H., Ratkowsky, D.A. (2021) A general model for describing the ovate leaf shape. Symmetry, 13, 1524. doi:10.3390/sym13081524


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