Biosphere integrity metrics for LPJmL

R package biospheremetrics, version 1.1.1

Purpose and Functionality

Functions to compute Biosphere integrity metrics BioCol and EcoRisk based on output from LPJmL. inst/README.md

Installation

For installation of the most recent package version an additional repository has to be added in R:

options(repos = c(CRAN = "@CRAN@", pik = "https://rse.pik-potsdam.de/r/packages"))

The additional repository can be made available permanently by adding the line above to a file called .Rprofile stored in the home folder of your system (Sys.glob("~") in R returns the home directory).

After that the most recent version of the package can be installed using install.packages:

install.packages("biospheremetrics")

Package updates can be installed using update.packages (make sure that the additional repository has been added before running that command):

update.packages()

Tutorial

The package comes with a vignette describing the basic functionality of the package and how to use it. You can load it with the following command (the package needs to be installed):

vignette("biospheremetrics") # Computing biospheremetrics

Questions / Problems

In case of questions / problems please contact Fabian Stenzel stenzel@pik-potsdam.de.

Citation

To cite package biospheremetrics in publications use:

Stenzel F, Breier J, Braun J (2026). "biospheremetrics: Biosphere integrity metrics for LPJmL." Version: 1.1.1, https://github.com/stenzelf/biospheremetrics.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Misc{,
 title = {biospheremetrics: Biosphere integrity metrics for LPJmL},
 author = {Fabian Stenzel and Jannes Breier and Johanna Braun},
 date = {2026-06-30},
 year = {2026},
 url = {https://github.com/stenzelf/biospheremetrics},
 note = {Version: 1.1.1},
}