Estimating Aboveground Biomass and Its Uncertainty in Tropical Forests

Contains functions for estimating above-ground biomass/carbon and its uncertainty in tropical forests. These functions allow to (1) retrieve and correct taxonomy, (2) estimate wood density and its uncertainty, (3) build height-diameter models, (4) manage tree and plot coordinates, (5) estimate above-ground biomass/carbon at stand level with associated uncertainty. To cite ‘BIOMASS’, please use citation(‘BIOMASS’). For more information, see Réjou-Méchain et al. (2017) .

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 wood density and its uncertainty;
3. building height-diameter models;
4. estimating above ground biomass/carbon at stand level with associated uncertainty;
5. managing tree and plot coordinates.

For more information, see 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

Shiny application

Access the shiny version of the BIOMASS package at https://amap-apps.cirad.fr/apps/biomass-app/

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")