WUA to Area in Square Meters — wua_to

Function converts a Weighted Usable Area (WUA) to an area in square meters by multiplying the WUA by the stream's length used by the species. The lengths were obtained through expert outreach in 2017 and are available here watershed_lengths.

wua_to_area(wua, watershed_name, life_stage, species_name)

Arguments

wua: WUA in square feet per 1000 feet
life_stage: life stage
watershed: watershed
species: species, "fr" - fall run or "sr" - spring run or "st" - steel head or "lfr" - late fall run