prepare_species {r3PG}

Check the species data for consistency

Description

Prepares the species table, by checking whether the input information is consistent.

Usage

prepare_species(species)

Arguments

species

table containing the information about species level data. Each row corresponds to one species/cohort.

• species: species or cohort id/name. It must be consistent with species names in thinning, parameters and sizeDist tables.

• planted: year and month indicating when species was planted. Provided in form of year-month. E.g. "2000-01".

• fertility: soil fertility for a given species. Range from 0 to 1.

• stems_n: number of trees per ha.

• biom_stem: stem biomass for a given species (Mg/ha).

• biom_root: root biomass for a given species (Mg/ha).

• biom_foliage: initial foliage biomass (Mg/ha). If this is a leafless period, provide the spring foliage biomass.

Details

This function check the species table for run_3PG.

Value

a data.frame with one row

See Also

run_3PG, prepare_input, prepare_parameters, prepare_sizeDist, prepare_thinning, prepare_site

Examples

# check species data
prepare_species( species = d_species)