macroBiome

Procedures for simulating biomes by equilibrium vegetation models, with a special focus on paleoenvironmental applications. Three widely used equilibrium biome models are currently implemented in the package: the Holdridge Life Zone (HLZ) system (Holdridge 1947, doi:10.1126/science.105.2727.367), the Köppen-Geiger classification (KGC) system (Köppen 1936, ) and the BIOME model (Prentice et al. 1992, doi:10.2307/2845499). Three climatic forest-steppe models are also implemented. An approach for estimating monthly time series of relative sunshine duration from temperature and precipitation data (Yin 1999, doi:10.1007/s007040050111) is also adapted, allowing process-based biome models to be combined with high-resolution paleoclimate simulation datasets (e.g., CHELSA-TraCE21k v1.0 dataset: ).