drdcarpenter / carbonhabitats

Calculating carbon storage and sequestration for UK priority habitats

carbonhabitats

The goal of carbonhabitats is to calculate the carbon storage and sequestration of UK priority habitats. This is a simple one-function package to calculate the amount of carbon stored (in above ground biomass and in soil) and sequestered by priority habitats in the UK. This is based on Field et al. (2020) The value of habitats of conservation importance to climate change mitigation in the UK. Biological Conservation, vol. 248. Carbon storage and sequestration values are taken from Taylor et al. (2019) High carbon burial rates by small ponds in the landscape. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. vol. 17. The package also uses soil carbon data from the FAO Global Soil Organic Carbon Map.

Installation

You can install the latest version of carbonhabitats from Github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("drdcarpenter/carbonhabitats")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to calculate stored and sequestered carbon using priority habitats data:

library(carbonhabitats)

# NOT RUN
# carbonise(x, habitats = "S41Habitat")