Pullens, J. W. M. and Bagnara, M. and Gonzalez, R. Silveyra and Gianelle, D. and Sottocornola, M. and Heijmans, M. M. P. D. and Kiely, G. and Hartig, F. (2017) The NUCOMBog R package for simulating vegetation, water, carbon and nitrogen dynamics in peatlands. ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS, 40. pp. 35-39. ISSN 1574-9541, 1878-0512
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Since peatlands store up to 30% of the global soil organic carbon, it is important to understand how these ecosystems will react to a change in climate and management. Process-based ecosystem models have emerged as important tools for predicting long-term peatland dynamics, but their application is often challenging because they require programming skills. In this paper, we present NUCOMBog, an R package of the NUCOM-Bog model (Heijmans et al. 2008), which simulates the vegetation, carbon, nitrogen and water dynamics of peatlands in monthly time steps. The package complements the model with appropriate functions, such as the calculation of net ecosystem exchange, as well as parallel functionality. As a result, the NUCOMBog R package provides a use-rfriendly tool for simulating vegetation and biogeochemical cycles/fluxes in peatlands over years/decades, under different management strategies and climate change scenarios, with the option to use all the in-built model analysis capabilities of R, such as plotting, sensitivity analysis or optimization.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | NORTHERN PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CO2; EXCHANGE; BOGS; ENCROACHMENT; RESPIRATION; VARIABILITY; BALANCE; Competition; Net ecosystem exchange; NUCOMBOG; Peatland; R package; Vegetation |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences 500 Science > 580 Botanical sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Botanik |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:16 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2019 14:35 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1584 |
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