NUCOMBog

An R package of the NUCOM-Bog model of vegetation, carbon, nitrogen and water dynamics in peatlands.

Cited 2 times on Google Scholar, summed over its 2 entries there (as of 11 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 optimization. The model executable is downloaded separately from GitHub.

Authors: Johannes W. M. Pullens (maintainer), Ramiro Silveyra Gonzalez, Maurizio Bagnara, Florian Hartig.

Paper describing NUCOMBog

The NUCOMBog R package for simulating vegetation, water, carbon and nitrogen dynamics in peatlands

Johannes W. M. Pullens, Maurizio Bagnara, Ramiro Silveyra González, Damiano Gianelle, Matteo Sottocornola, Monique M. P. D. Heijmans, Gerard Kiely, Florian Hartig

Ecological Informatics, 40, 35–39 (2017)

doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.05.001 2 citations

Widely cited work citing NUCOMBog

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Advancing simulations of water fluxes, soil moisture and drought stress by using the LWF-Brook90 hydrological model in R Paul Schmidt‐Walter et al. (2020), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 58 citations
Triangulation in Ecological Research: Epistemological Roots, Field Realities, and Integrative Pathways Jacob D.E. et al. (2026), Trends in Environmental Sciences · 0 citations

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