Assess wood density data situation, make plan

[teixeirak]

• [x] touch base with Nate S about the origins of CTFS wood density data file
• [x] @ervanSTRI , could you please tell us about the wood density values you're using?
• [x] touch base with Amy Zanne/ Jerome Chave to learn status of wood density database (we hear that Jerome has a postdoc working on this and that Amy is also involved)
• [x] write code to extract relevant data from wood density database (consider this vignette of the BIOMASS package and code by Ervan).
• [ ] try to track down other sources that contributed to database (otherwise they probably have to be dropped). A comparison of what's in the Zanne/ Chave global database versus the CTFS wood density file may help to identify site-specific data that have made it into our database.
• [ ] add any available CTFS - specific data (with documentation)

[ErvanCH]

Hi Krista, I am using the WD database provided by CTFS (compiled by Nate and complemented by Joe for BCI), as described here: http://ctfs.si.edu/Public/CTFSRPackage/index.php/web/data_format/wooddensity_data.

[teixeirak]

Here is the website for the global wood density database: http://wooddensity.univ-tlse3.fr.

[gonzalezeb]

Closing issue as we don't use wood density in allodb process.