TITLE: SEOSAW growth rates workshop

TITLE: SEOSAW growth rates workshop
DATE: 2023-09-13
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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Recently, with help from colleagues, I ran an online workshop for
the SEOSAW network 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.

[SEOSAW network]: https://seosaw.github.io/

The workshop built on a lot of previously established methods like
Kohyama et al. (2019), Kohyama et al. (2018), Talbot et al (2014),
Bowman et al. (2012), and Mugasha et al. (2017).

[Kohyama et al. (2019)]:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.11.010
[Kohyama et al. (2018)]: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12929
[Talbot et al (2014)]:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.021
[Bowman et al. (2012)]:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2012.08.005
[Mugasha et al. (2017)]:
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} and
{ProdVital} R packages, then in the afternoon we had some
discussions on developing research ideas that take advantage of
these methods.

[{seosawr}]:
https://bitbucket.org/miombo/seosaw/src/master/seosawr/seosawr/
[{ProdVital}]: https://github.com/johngodlee/ProdVital

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

[Here is a
link](https://johngodlee.xyz/files/growth_workshop/seosaw_growth_wor
kshop.zip)