bioclimate

Calculates the values of bioclimatic indices from monthly temperature and
precipitation measurements, following Szelepcsényi et al. 2014.

Grants access to three widely recognised modelled data sets, namely
Global Climate Data (WorldClim 2), Climatologies at high resolution for the
earth's land surface areas (CHELSA), and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's (NASA) Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). It handles
both multi and single geospatial polygon and point data, extracts outputs
that can serve as covariates in various ecological studies. Provides two
common graphic options – the Walter-Lieth (1960)
<https://donum.uliege.be/bitstream/2268.1/7079/1/Walter-Lieth_Klimadiagramm-Weltatlas.pdf>
climate diagram and the Holdridge (1967)
<https://reddcr.go.cr/sites/default/files/centro-de-documentacion/holdridge_1966_-_life_zone_ecology.pdf>
life zone classification scheme. Provides one new graphic scheme of our own
design which incorporates aspects of both Walter-Leigh and Holdridge.
Provides user-friendly access and extraction of globally recognisable data
sets to enhance their usability across a broad spectrum of applications.

James L. Tsakalos

climenv

Download, Extract and Visualise Climate and Elevation Data

Martin R. Smith

Federico Luebert

Ladislav Mucina

bioclimate function

<dl><dt>temp</dt>
<dd>A matrix or data frame with 12 columns containing
temperatures, in degrees C, for each month of the calendar year.</dd>
<dt>prec</dt>
<dd>A matrix or data frame with the same dimensions as <code>temp</code>,
containing precipitation measurements in mm for each month of the year.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Author

Holdridge points — bioclimate

<dl>

<dt>temp</dt>
<dd>A matrix or data frame with 12 columns containing
temperatures, in degrees C, for each month of the calendar year.</dd>


<dt>prec</dt>
<dd>A matrix or data frame with the same dimensions as <code>temp</code>,
containing precipitation measurements in mm for each month of the year.</dd>

</dl>

bioclimate: Holdridge points

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