FlyingR (version 0.2.0)

stopover.mass.calculator: Stopover mass calculator

Description

During stop-overs birds replenish fat mass. Using simplifications from Lindstr<U+00F6>m 1991. The implementation here is simplistic in that muscle mass is not restored as theory and field experiments have shown.

Usage

stopover.mass.calculator(bodyMass, fatMass, taxon, duration)

Arguments

bodyMass

left-over after running function migrate

fatMass

left-over after running function migrate

taxon

(or order) classified into two categories (passerines and non-passerines)

duration

number of hours spent at stop-over site. This must be an integer see example

Value

fat_mass, body_mass

Examples

# NOT RUN {
stopover.mass.calculator(bodyMass = c(2.2, 3.4), fatMass = c(0.34, 0.42),
taxon = c(1,2), duration = 36L)
# }