tempSuit {soilassessment} | R Documentation |
A function for assessing temperature suitability requirements for certain crops and trees
Description
This function determines the suitability classes for temperature requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees
Usage
tempSuit(value, crop)
Arguments
value |
Input temperature in degrees Celsius. |
crop |
The crop of interest for which temperature suitability class is sought. |
Details
The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of temperature in degrees Celsius
Value
The output is temperature suitability class for the crop. The output is integer value for suitability class: 1- highly suitable; 2 - moderately suitable; 3 - marginally suitable; 4 - currently not suitable; 5 - not suitable
Author(s)
Christian Thine Omuto
References
Sys, C., Van Ranst, E., Debaveye, J. and Beerneaert, F.1993. Land evaluation: Part III: Crop requirements. Development Cooperation, Belgium.
Naidu, L.G.K., Ramamurthy, V., Challa O., Hegde, R. and Krishnan, P. 2006. Manual, Soil-site Suitability Criteria for Major Crops, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, ICAR, Nagpur, India
FAO Crop Suitability Requirements: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home
See Also
carbonSuit, depthSuite, fertilitySuit
Examples
tempgrape=tempSuit(23.5,"grape")
summary(tempgrape)