TITLE: SEOSAW growth rates workshop
DATE: 2023-09-13
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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Recently, with help from colleagues, I ran an online workshop for 
the SEOSAW network on estimating tree growth rates, rates of 
recruitment and mortality, and rates of biomass productivity and 
loss from repeat measurements of tree stem diameter in fixed area 
plots.

  [SEOSAW network]: https://seosaw.github.io/

The workshop built on a lot of previously established methods like 
Kohyama et al. (2019), Kohyama et al. (2018), Talbot et al (2014), 
Bowman et al. (2012), and Mugasha et al. (2017).

  [Kohyama et al. (2019)]: 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.11.010
  [Kohyama et al. (2018)]: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12929
  [Talbot et al (2014)]: 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.021
  [Bowman et al. (2012)]: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2012.08.005
  [Mugasha et al. (2017)]: 
https://doi.org/10.2989/20702620.2016.1233755

I put together some worksheets with tutorial-like exercises to 
familiarise everybody with the functions in the {seosawr} and 
{ProdVital} R packages, then in the afternoon we had some 
discussions on developing research ideas that take advantage of 
these methods.

  [{seosawr}]: 
https://bitbucket.org/miombo/seosaw/src/master/seosawr/seosawr/
  [{ProdVital}]: https://github.com/johngodlee/ProdVital

Here is a link to a zip file containing all the slides and 
worksheets from the workshop.

  [Here is a 
link](https://johngodlee.xyz/files/growth_workshop/seosaw_growth_wor
kshop.zip)