BIOMASS

The package

The BIOMASS package allows users to estimate above ground biomass/carbon and its uncertainty in tropical forests.

The main implemented steps are as follows :

1. retrieving and correcting tree taxonomy;
2. estimating the wood density and its uncertainty;
3. constructing height-diameter models;
4. estimating the above ground biomass/carbon at the stand level with the associated uncertainty;
5. managing tree and plot coordinates.

For more information, see the paper of Réjou-Méchain et al. (2017)

Install BIOMASS

The latest released version from CRAN:

install.packages("BIOMASS")

The latest version from Github (in development):

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github('umr-amap/BIOMASS')

To use it :

library("BIOMASS")

Tutorials/Vignettes

Two vignettes are available in the 'Articles' section of the following page : https://umr-amap.github.io/BIOMASS/index.html

Citation

Please cite this package as:

Réjou-Méchain M, Tanguy A, Piponiot C, Chave J, Herault B (2017). “BIOMASS : an R package for estimating above-ground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(9). ISSN 2041210X, doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12753.

Or you can also run

citation("BIOMASS")