Compute from an object of class aRchi the path fraction
Usage
PathFraction(aRchi)
# S4 method for aRchi
PathFraction(aRchi)
Value
The path fraction
Arguments
aRchi
an object of class aRchi with at least the QSM and the Paths table
Details
The path fraction is the ratio between the mean path length and the maximum path length.
References
Martin-Ducup, O. et al. Terrestrial laser scanning reveals convergence of tree architecture with increasingly dominant crown canopy position. Functional Ecology (2020).
Smith, D. D. et al. Deviation from symmetrically self-similar branching in trees predicts altered hydraulics, mechanics, light interception and metabolic scaling. New Phytologist 201, 217–229 (2014).
# Read an aRchi file with at least the QSM and the paths tablefile=system.file("extdata","Tree_1_aRchi.aRchi",package = "aRchi")
Tree1_aRchi=read_aRchi(file)
PathFraction(Tree1_aRchi)