StreamMetabolism 0.03 Released
StreamMetabolism 0.03 was uploaded onto CRAN this evening and should be available soon. Function sunrise.set has been added which is highly reliant on map tools sunriset function. This function makes it easy to create a sequence of sunrise sunset times. EcosystemProduction.20 has been added to account for temperature's effect on respiration (reaction rate doubling for every 10 deg. C). The correction is preformed in the daytime and not during the night. The rational here is that the average nighttime rate is an actual average (assuming that only respiration is acting at night). During the day the actual respiration rate can not be measured, but the effect of temperature on chemical reaction rate is known and the following equation is used. ERt = ERa*(1.072^(T-Ta)) ERt = Ecosystem Respiration @ Temp ERa = Average Nighttime Respiration T = Temperature @ which to predict ER Ta = Average Nighttime Temperature As always comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome. regards,
Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis