SEOSAW growth rates workshop

DATE: 2023-09-13

AUTHOR: John L. Godlee

Recently, with help from colleagues, I ran an online workshop for the SEOSAW network[1] on estimating tree growth rates, rates of recruitment and mortality, and rates of biomass productivity and loss from repeat measurements of tree stem diameter in fixed area plots.

1: https://seosaw.github.io/

The workshop built on a lot of previously established methods like Kohyama et al. (2019)[2], Kohyama et al. (2018)[3], Talbot et al (2014)[4], Bowman et al. (2012)[5], and Mugasha et al. (2017)[6].

2: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.11.010

3: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12929

4: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.021

5: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2012.08.005

6: https://doi.org/10.2989/20702620.2016.1233755

I put together some worksheets with tutorial-like exercises to familiarise everybody with the functions in the {seosawr}[7] and {ProdVital}[8] R packages, then in the afternoon we had some discussions on developing research ideas that take advantage of these methods.

7: https://bitbucket.org/miombo/seosaw/src/master/seosawr/seosawr/

8: https://github.com/johngodlee/ProdVital

Here is a link[9] to a zip file containing all the slides and worksheets from the workshop.

9: /files/growth_workshop/seosaw_growth_workshop.zip