traitecoevo / plant

Trait-Driven Models of Ecology and Evolution :evergreen_tree:
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Make seed rain variable over time #331

Closed dfalster closed 2 years ago

dfalster commented 2 years ago

Currently we can only handle a fixed input of seed rains. Would be useful to be able to specify this as varying over time.

In the first instance, @aornugent has implemented an option for exponential decay of seed rain with patch age. This allows you to limit recruitment to the first (early) cohorts, which is useful wen for example studying something like self thinning.

Longer term, we may use the spline API being developed for environmental variables to upload a custom seed rain.