Invitation to compile a data base of allometric equations (allodb)

[maurolepore]

Hi Ervan, Erika and Krista,

(@ervanSTRI, @gonzalezeb, @teixeirak)

I'm following up the idea of building a function to calculate biomass for sites in the CTFS-ForestGEO network. I now need a table with one allometric equation per site and I would like to start with tropical forests.
-- Ervan, I remember you offered such a table; can you share it with me now?
-- Erika and Krista, I hope to meet you in the upcoming weeks.

BACKGROUND

I wrote a prototype function that calculates biomass using either default equations or user's equations -- whichever is most specific. The prototype is explained here: https://forestgeo.github.io/bmss/articles/biomass.html. Now the function works with a dummy data set.

These are my next steps:
(1) For site-level equations, replace the dummy data set by the real data set for tropical forests (Ervan);
(2) Same for temperate forests (Erika and Krista);
(3) For species-level equations, replace the dummy data set by the real data set for tropical forests (Ervan);
(4) For species-level equations, replace the dummy data set by the real data set for tropical forests (Erika and Krista).

Cheers,
Mauro