R: Drought stress indicators

droughtStress {medfate}

R Documentation

Drought stress indicators

Description

Calculates plant drought stress indices, at different temporal scales, from simulation results.

Usage

droughtStress(x, index = "NDD", freq = "years", bySpecies = FALSE, draw = TRUE)

Arguments

`x`	An object of class `spwb`, `pwb`, `growth` or `fordyn`.
`index`	A string with the index to be calculated, either `"DI"`, `"NDD"`, `"ADS"`, `"MDS"` or `"WSI"` (see details).
`freq`	Frequency of stress statistics (see `cut.Date`). Normally, either `"years"` or `"months"` for yearly-based or monthly-based indices.
`bySpecies`	Allows aggregating output by species.
`draw`	A boolean flag to indicate that a plot should be returned.

Details

The currently available drought stress indices are:

"ADS": Average of daily drought stress values for the period considered.
"MDS": Maximum daily drought stress during the period considered.
"DI": Drought intensity, as defined in De Cáceres et al. (2015).
"NDD": Number of drought days, as defined in De Cáceres et al. (2015).
"WSI": Water stress integral, as defined in Myers (1988).

Value

A data frame with periods (e.g., years or months) in rows and plant cohorts (or species) in columns. Values are the calculated stress index. If draw=TRUE a ggplot is returned instead.

Author(s)

Miquel De Cáceres Ainsa, CREAF

References

De Cáceres M, Martínez-Vilalta J, Coll L, Llorens P, Casals P, Poyatos R, Pausas JG, Brotons L. (2015) Coupling a water balance model with forest inventory data to predict drought stress: the role of forest structural changes vs. climate changes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 213: 77-90 (doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.012).

Myers BJ (1988) Water stress integral - a link between short-term stress and long-term growth. Tree Physiology 4: 315–323 (doi: 10.1093/treephys/4.4.315)