Detritus consumption rate — detritus_consumption • mizerShelf

An internal helper function. This returns the total detritus consumption rate and is used in detritus_dynamics() to calculate the detritus abundance at the next time step. To get the consumption rate split up by consumer species, use getDetritusConsumption().

Usage

detritus_consumption(
  params,
  n_pp = params@initial_n_pp,
  rates = getRates(params)
)

Arguments

params: MizerParams
n_pp: Detritus spectrum
rates: A list of rates as returned by getRates()

Value

A number giving the consumption rate in grams per year.