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Mediterranean landscape simulation medfateland website

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Introduction

The R package medfateland has been designed to extend the capabilities of packagemedfate to a spatially-explicit context. It allows running the stand-level models available in medfate on points and cells within landscape or region, including the possibility of parallelization. Additionally, medfateland allows considering seed dispersal and lateral water transfer processes in forested watersheds. Hence, medfateland can be used as a tool for eco-hydrological applications.

Package installation

Since both packages evolve together, installing medfateland normally requires an up-to-date version ofmedfate.

Package medfateland can be found atCRAN, where it is updated every few months. Installation from CRAN can be done via:

install.packages("medfateland")

Users can also download and install the latest stable versions GitHub as follows (required package remotes should be installed/updated first):

remotes::install_github("emf-creaf/medfateland")

Documentation

A number of vignettes illustrate how to initialize inputs and run simulation models in medfateland. These can be found at the packagewebsite. The user is also advised to read the articles included inmedfate.

A complete documentation of both packages, including a reference book, can be found at https://emf-creaf.github.io/medfatebook/index.html.

Companion R packages

The modelling tools included in medfate and medfateland are closely developed with another package:

Two other R packages complete the simulation framework, but can be used for many other purposes beyond forest modelling:

The relationships between the five packages are illustrated in the figure below, where black arrows indicate package dependencies and gray arrows indicate model parameter or data provision.

Authorship

Package medfateland is developed and maintained by the Ecosystem Modelling Facility unit atCREAF (in Spain), in close collaboration with researchers fromURFM-INRAE(in France) and CTFC (in Spain).

Funding