NUCOMBog
An R package of the NUCOM-Bog model of vegetation, carbon, nitrogen and water dynamics in peatlands.
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35,564 downloads from the Posit (RStudio) CRAN mirror since 2016, through 28 October 2026
Cited 2 times on Google Scholar (as of 29 October 2026)
NUCOMBog makes the NUCOM-Bog model (NUtrient Cycling and cOMpetition model for undisturbed open Bog ecosystems in a temperate to sub-boreal climate) usable from R. The model simulates the vegetation, carbon, nitrogen and water dynamics of peatlands in monthly time steps. Peatlands store up to 30% of the world’s soil organic carbon, which is why their response to climate change and management matters.
The package adds functions such as the calculation of net ecosystem exchange, runs simulations in parallel, and lets users apply R’s own tools for plotting, sensitivity analysis and optimisation. The model executable is downloaded separately from GitHub.
Authors: Johannes W. M. Pullens (maintainer), Ramiro Silveyra Gonzalez, Maurizio Bagnara, Florian Hartig.
Paper describing NUCOMBog
Citations
NUCOMBog has been cited 2 times on Google Scholar as of 29 October 2026. These are the citations of the paper describing it.
Widely cited work citing NUCOMBog
The most-cited articles that cite NUCOMBog or its paper, ranked by their own citation count in OpenAlex as of 29 October 2026; the group's own papers are left out.